It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.

I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o'clock and I'd be gone.

I love life, man, and I embrace every minute of it so maybe I bring that on the set. I love people and I want to have a good time.

In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.