I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

There is so much in the world to care about.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .

If you give me the ball, you'll never see it again. Because I'll knock it out of the f*****g park.

And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.