I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.