It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart.

I'm just someone who observes a lot..

We all become what we pretend to be..

We are not revived because we sing; we sing because we are revived..

It is not what you do. It is that you do..

Leadership is more doing than dash..

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up….

I just don't think that being unable to forgive someone is the most healing move. It can be, and I've had times in my life when I thought I would be ….

To be is to stand for..

I've never been onstage in my life..

Things that don't exist do exist. They're just really fast..

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, an….

Fear is the biggest motivator..

Drama schools are very small community, a very incestuous community, so you get to know one another very, very quickly and it just washes over after ….

But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I….

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it ….

There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have master….

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society..

I've always been interested in making movies..