Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
I tend to read non-fiction.
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
