A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

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