My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm too much of a big kid.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.

She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Food is much better off the hand than the fork.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.