No one thinks they're irritating. Nobody thinks they're boring. So if you're playing a character like that you have to play them as how they think of themselves.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

I haven't got any kids yet and it is something I need to address. I'm sure that, God willing, that'll be the next and most fabulous episode of my little life.

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you

... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'...

All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.

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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.