One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
There are those moments when you shake someone’s hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor’s faces there’s point where they’re not managing their performance and that’s, I think, the best place to be. You’ve done the homework, you’ve learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.
When you meet women, don’t pretend to be anything that you’re not.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it’s a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you’re not playing yourself.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I’d choose theater.
I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most.
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven’t got time to mess about.
The actor shouldn’t edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It’s a director’s job to go, “No here, don’t do that, go there.”
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
People fear they won’t get what they want.
There’s a lot of people who feel there’s a tabloid journalist who had it coming.