Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Kids accept a lot more, and they buy it, because they're free.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

I found a girl, fell in love, she had a baby, and i fell in love again.

With every character you play, as these guys will tell you, there's a part of you goes into that in terms of the ingredients of making this stew. There's most definitely a part of me in Captain Jack and now, fortunately or unfortunately, there's a great part of Captain Jack in me as well. Basically, I can't shake him. He won't leave me alone. He just sort of keeps showing up at odd times.

You always miss them [characters you've played] once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.