I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

There isn't music without rhythm

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.