There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!