I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the...
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.