Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer