“Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.”

The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I’ve got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they’d ask ‘And who’s the girl?’ Just one famous face isn’t enough any more.

It’s been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It’s the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They’re all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman’s lunch.

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

I wasn’t ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

We’re given a code to live our lives by. We don’t always follow it, but it’s still there.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

Some girls dream of princes and castles others play with matches.

The heart knows what it wants, it’s the mind which plays games.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I will be playing until the sun up.

You talked a big game for someone who never actually played.

I’ve grown tired of playing the warrior In the battle between me And my demons.

I hope you find someone who dances to the beat of your soul, so you never have to sit alone in life while the music plays.

Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.