I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

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.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.