If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

On marriage to Jonny Lee Miller: It comes down to timing. I think he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too young.

We all work with one infinite power.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.