I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

It's not like I particularly have an interest in creepiness for creepy's sake.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

God is in the details.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

I've interviewed people where their response was literally one word for everything I asked. This didn't help me get to know them, nor did it sell me on their skill set to help my company achieve its goals. I got nothing from them, which meant I had no way of knowing if they were really a good fit in the company.

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

If you don't like public service, don't run for office.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time.

People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.