“I’m very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.”

From my point of view, things don’t have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they’d seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There’s people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

People don’t know who I am, and that’s not a bad thing at all from my end.

At 15 I had moved out of my parents’ place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

There were the usual types of things that happen, in a production, like logistical bullshit, and this and that and the other. That’s the sort of stuff that happened. But I never felt, in a creative sense, that we were ever veering into a place that I hadn’t signed on for.

I mean, there’s a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that’s rampant there.

I’ve spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

The people I’ve encountered who are really dangerous in my life don’t go around with their fangs drawn – they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what’s going on.

I think now there’s much more of a confessional culture. That’s not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: ‘give ’em nothin.’ You don’t plead guilty.

There’s very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

If you ride like lightning, you’re gonna crash like thunder.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It’s kind of all I’ve got.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There’s the two really tangible things that can stay.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders’ skirts.

I have never been brought up a Catholic – I mean, a Roman Catholic – we’re all Catholics, aren’t we? We’re Protestant Catholics, whether we’re from Methodist or Baptist or what.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is ‘If it feels good – stop.’

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I was raised a Catholic and when you’re raised a Catholic they don’t teach you to think for yourself. You’re taught not to think too deeply about things.