It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

The greatest adventure is reading!

Don’t focus on the action, focus on the mentality behind the action. Analyzing the mentality will help us differentiate between a one-time error and a long-term character flaw.

circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

You are never alone

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.