Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I'm a workaholic.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Extra work sucks. Get out quick.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at once so much and yet understand so little.

There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Psychological fact: Science has shown that chocolate and shopping are more addictive than LSD and steroids.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Life works best when we focus on where we're going rather than where we've been.

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals beasts of prey if you will who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Do I disagree that we need to ban all Muslims from entering the country? Yes, I disagree with that strongly.