The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn’t know that was going to happen.

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those...

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us....

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn’t be very many roles for me to play.

No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a...

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that’s really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do –...

I’ve never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I’m a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I’m really Desperate Dan.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can...

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don’t ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose – struggle and perseverance.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.