Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.