There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

It doesn't matter who you are. What matters is your plan.

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.

The only thing I can do is wipe my arse, brush my teeth, turn up and do the best work I can.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.