I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

In my days and in my nights, they talk to me, your eyes!

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.