I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I owe my father everything.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

Hunger's a great spur.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Goals are important but what you become to achieve goals is much more important.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.