I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

The sword was not the kingdom, he says.

Stress itself is not what’s toxic. It’s our relationship to it that's the hazard.

I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

I'm probably in better shape now than I was when I was in my 20s.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.