[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

Everything will be fine in the end. If it's not fine, it's not the end.

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.

I had a dream about you last night. You were at my door. We had forgotten what we used to fight about. So, I let you in and we made coconut pancakes like it was the very first time.

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.