Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.

Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.

There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

When I was a kid growing up, you maybe secretly wanted to be an actor, but you never said.

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

'Rectify' is un-busy. It might soothe you, if not distract you, from all you got going on.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television.

I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.

Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way.

I always love the holiday episodes, because you really get to see everybody at their best.

I don't think a lot of people gave 'Beavis & Butt-Head' credit for how subtle it could be.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

What is so good about 'Gavin and Stacey' is that it is very real, Welsh, and well written.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

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