I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

I'm composing and writing music.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.