“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.”

I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy.

I’d sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m.

I’d wear clogs, short pants and ladies’ bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Some actors actually think about what they’re going to talk about during the interview–they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It’s very smart, but it’s so planned. I never think to do that.

The family is where most of our joy comes from.

Money is just something to be circulated.

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.

Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.

I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

You achieve because you’re lucky to work with people who are very talented.

I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.

No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.

The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.