I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.