"The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'"

"I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine."

"As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year."

"My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely."

"Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course."

"The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after."

"It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."