I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.