I’ve always believed that as an actor anything you’re asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.
I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.
When I look back at my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. That was meant to be.
I’ve never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can’t do it. If I’m thinking about this, I can’t think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don’t know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I’ll have a longer shelf life.
I don’t take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
It’s much more fun to be ugly.
I used to be a rabid reader, but now it’s scripts or nothing – network television is quite relentless, and you can’t drop the ball.
Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don’t have to take it home with you at night. It’s the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
The darker the character, the more interesting.
The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what’s more interesting is always what’s not being said.
Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?
At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.