I just want to be rich and famous.

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.

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.

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.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

So, you're the Santa Claus of the magic world with a naughty and nice list?

The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.

make your worst day is the best day in your life, because surely there's something missing within our self without it, so we can be who we are now, the wiser and the mature one

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.