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 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 belligerent rather than ambitious.

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

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.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

Of all the things you wear your expression is the most important.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.