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.
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.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
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...
Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.
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 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.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
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.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.