When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Denial of the Self accomplishes nothing.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

We must be still before God.

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.