Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

I like idiotic comedies.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.