“My thing about looking good is that it should be the character.”

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

Just because you’re from the minimalist school, it doesn’t mean you can’t go big.

I think there’s a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands – which is where my family is from – in Ireland.

Make them laugh, and then make them listen.

There’s certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

I mean, I’ve been stupid in the past, and I’ve learned from that.

You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I’m not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.

I don’t. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

If I’m playing a character who’s concerned about his body – an athlete, say – I’ll get in shape. If I’m playing a character who doesn’t or wouldn’t,

I don’t get any parts I don’t get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don’t get offered.

Really, most of us just focus on what’s in front of us. We’re too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I’m not particularly a career-oriented guy. I’m lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I’d like to have the choice of the better roles.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods.

Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren’t looking for it and didn’t plan on it.

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room.

I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home.

On a plane or on a train, or whatever, you see people with their headphones and they’re looking at their iPhone or their Galaxy.