I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intri….

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message….

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of p….

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me..

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I a….

Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But someti….

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare..

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do thin….

Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting..

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly..

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive..

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience..

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel ….

Be who you like as long as you mean it..

If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. T….

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes..

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired,….

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice ….

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories..

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves..

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesti….