In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl!

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I owe my father everything.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

Hunger's a great spur.

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Nothing comes from nothing

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.