I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.

I was at the birth of my two girls.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.