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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.