Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

What you do today will determine how you feel tomorrow.

Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.