I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, a….

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business..

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music..

I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it..

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a deg….

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take c….

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early..

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should ….

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have b….

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose….

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn'….

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's h….

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage..

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me..

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there..

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions..

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innoce….