He earned every precious beautiful moment life gave back to him..

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your perf….

I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people..

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciti….

I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray ….

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where i….

My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music ….

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thin….

We're getting the blues about having to walk away from this whole thing. We enjoyed it a lot and it all felt good. We had a good experience on it. We….

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole….

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a partic….

You work for it. You don't have to massage it, so that it fits into the way it has to be. He's just too vigorous a writer and the dialogue is too spa….

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I r….

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have in….

Are there people to aspire to? Can people be strong enough to withstand all of this disillusionment? Maybe the time is right for people to emerge fro….

We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this poi….

I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bi….

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phoneti….

I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it th….

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work f….