I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.