I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids bits. Ive always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.

Your courage will be tested during the adversity as well as during the change.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

You get the job done or you don't.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.