“I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.”

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you’re kind of saving the world.

I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent

You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we’ve got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives’ story lines

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

What’s going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.

He sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there’s a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.

The theater and film, they’re like two completely different mediums.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you’re off a show before they book you into a movie.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it’s been an amazing learning curve.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

There’s nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

It helps that, if I don’t want to play, I don’t really have to! I’m not the best drummer in the world, but it’s something I love and enjoy, and that sounds like a good trade.

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don’t get on with machismo. I’m interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that’s what we are.

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.