I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

I'm always looking for something that's versatile from the last.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

You can’t stay in a Blackberry mindset and become an Apple!

Living in Hell kept him aware of the possibility of Heaven, and he’d never felt more alive.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.

Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical