Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

You learn more doing than doing training.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

It's absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. There's been significant site-looting in Egypt and elsewhere across the Middle East.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

Pressure isn't a bad word. It's a great word. It gives you tunnel vision and let's you focus on the task at hand.

I don't mind being a buffoon.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

Seeking Clarity is seeking connection with the universe. To connect is to understand to be clear is to be enlightened.

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

It's all about the money.

That 'who's the sexiest' business is a crock that the media cooked up to sell magazines, so while I say thank you very much, I don't put much stock in it.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Its not enough to be nice in life. Youve got to have nerve.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game.

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.