I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.