I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

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.'

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

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