Occupation: Actor Birth: November 2, 1959
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know..
I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and a….
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throa….
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the unde….
There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the sm….
It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't tu….
Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every direct….
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being..
Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors..
The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in….
I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, secon….
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy..
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - t….
Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do..
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'.
I find the world more absurd now than I did when I was a kid..
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd..
The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty girls in the show. I realized; I foun….
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you..
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy..
I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them..