The great thing about having been in a lot of make-up, and stuff like that, is that when you're working with someone who's in it, and you've been there and done it, but you're not in it anymore, you feel so good.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.