I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

What were all of them, really, but bits of something else? Bits of stars?

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

God didn't make junk.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.