"I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine."

"I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck."

"I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great."

"I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary."

"Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent."

"In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek."

"Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science."

"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"