The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

The work I prefer to do are the smaller budget pictures, television can be great but it ties you up for quite a long time.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person.

There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.