People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.
Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids. . . Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible. '
The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?