Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That's the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn't signed on for.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.