If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.

If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

I must have true love or nothing.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.