If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.

I do not regret having done 'Game of Thrones,' but I have nothing to say. I understood neither the series nor its success when I was attending. The experience was very strange; it passed under my nose.

The stage is such an investment, and it's so emotional that it's really hard to tell how that will go.

Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.