“There will come a day when the phone doesn’t ring as much as it used to.”

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.

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

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.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I don’t really have a writing process. I don’t write at all but, honestly, I feel like it’s a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

A girl phoned me the other day and said… ‘Come on over, there’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.

I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.