I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes.

I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

And now?" came my dad's voice. "Now who am I?" "The man who chose his girlfriend over his family." I turned and looked at my father. "Someone whose words I don't believe.

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

I've been myself my whole life.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

The first sign of extravagance is to buy trousers that one does not need.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

I think there are a lot of crazy guys that I've played with in the past. Wayne VanDorp, when I played in Chicago. He wasn't a big name, but my God was he nuts.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.