I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don’t know what they did about exteriors.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

What’s fascinating is that when you write a script, it’s almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you’re not always sure what. Then when you get on the...

I believe Halloween 4, despite the fact that I wasn’t too thrilled with the makeup, was a return to the kind of thing that made the original so good.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that...

I’m a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me...

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

I sang with a band and all that stuff, but I did make a choice at one point to favor acting as a career just because that seemed to be the way to go.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

I thought we were going to win the game but we won’t take the disappointments, we will take the positives.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is...

I’ve taken some notes as I’ve gone through the years of playing this character. On the surface, Loomis appears to have been the classic nut case.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

I grew up doing musicals. I’ve done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a...

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that...

I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there’s a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

Wouldn’t you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there’s a lot more blood. They’re obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

In terms of pure acting, it’s a gift.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

I’m working class, and want people to know I’m not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

I think film and television are really a director’s medium, whereas theatre is the actor’s medium.

I’m sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you’re losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

And whenever I’m in a situation where I’m wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether...

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don’t like, something else will come along in...

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

I’ve always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I’m still resisting it.

Many times I’ve sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty.

It’s gotten to the point where it’s big news when I don’t do a horror film.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn’t know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

So whoever you believe wrote the plays, they felt it was important to mask them, to mask the identity, the personality of the author.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I think everybody’s got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I’m actually working, but...

I don’t like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn’t for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in...

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I’m hoping there is. If that doesn’t happen I will...

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don’t mind.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.