I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.

Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.