Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about..

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone..

My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring..

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business..

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore..

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failin….

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with r….

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's….

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you wan….

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal..

I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicat….

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash..

I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect peopl….

I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don't care. It's a good time. I don't know why it's such a good time, but it's a good time..

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard a….

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've ….

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit o….

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters..

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script..

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school..

I think one of the things you have to have is a respect for the camera, a real respect, and a real love for it, and to really, when I say take it ser….