My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

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.

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 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 am emotionally fluid and safe.

Fairness isn’t getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."

I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.