Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.