Yeah, well that’s the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you’re in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you’re...

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

I don’t know if it’s a romantic comedy but I’m in the beginning of the first of the season of “The West Wing.” We shot it last year. I don’t know. If anyone asks me...

So there’s a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds...

It’s an odd world.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

It’s always hard when you’re playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There’s a communion between a reader and the writer, so...

I rather liked Death Line. All those zombies on the tube train thing was good fun, and it allowed me more of a comic turn than I am usually afforded.

However, I wasn’t very good at the sciences, or didn’t have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn’t set science for my A level. And when I came to take...

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That’s why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the ‘good guy’ or the ‘bad guy,’ because I think...

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the...

As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I don’t know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid’s faces when you tell them you’ve done it.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn’t like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series...

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of...

I have four children which is not bad considering I’m not a Catholic.

I’m proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it’s a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail...

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

One of the things I’m most proud of about my career is the fact I’ve managed to keep options open.

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let’s get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way...

I’m at the beginning of it. I’m Elektra’s last job before the story kicks off.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

I’ve never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

It’s becoming increasingly harder and harder; there’s no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren’t any, they don’t exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget...

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.

I’ll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.

Books, I don’t know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can’t for the life of me see why people have to write them.

I wasn’t always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

I don’t think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I hadn’t worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To...

I know exactly where I’ve come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.