Sam Riley

I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.