I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Nothing beats a great smile.

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

When you pick up a script and you can't stop reading it because it's a real page-turner, that's a good sign.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

I mean everyone has a different opinion of you – so many boxes for you to fit into!

God takes us through life's journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.

Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.