If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

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.

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

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Reading is good, action is better.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.