It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

We are eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!

I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

I’ve met a few fans from across the world who’ve had my name tattooed on them.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.