"I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me."
"If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead."
"My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested."
"In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions."
"I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit."
"It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around."
"I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art."
"Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis."
"If it is not scary, it is not worth doing."
"Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice."
"There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens."
"I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever."
"It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me."
"I never thought I would be in a film."
"In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland."
"I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky."
"I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor."
"I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician."
"When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense."
"I don't do celebrity."
"I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time."
"I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting."
"People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me."
"My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?"
"Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed."
