The better the writing, the easier it gets.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

What is it with you and girls’ bathrooms?

Happiness is the highest form of health.

Don't make excuses, make good.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.

I've always believed that a beautiful shoe is useless unless it feels as wonderful as it looks.