What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.