You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

Eva [Braun] and I were never involved in the financial aspects of where [Adolf] Hitler put her up.

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

Gossip is irresponsible communication.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.