I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations.

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now.

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.

I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.