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I tend to read non-fiction.
There are roles that you chase sometimes.
I just think political correctness is crap.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
What other people think of me is none of my business.
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.
How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.
You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.
I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.
The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.