"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely."
"For me, acting is doing."
"I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month."
"I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting."
"My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split."
"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
"There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies."
"When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."
"Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time."
"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."
"That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."
"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine."
"Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically."
"I'm a journeyman actor."
"I have no desire to look at myself."
"He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience."
"I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches."
"Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it."
"I'm not a politician or political animal."
"I went to a Radiohead concert with Mr. Aaron Paul and became instantly hip. He's a great tweeter and took a photograph of the two of us. He said, 'Man, look at this! We've already got 800 hits in five minutes!' So this old dog became hip."
"Certain projects find you at the right time."
"When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident."
"Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again."
"I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now."
