When you’re younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It’s not when you look back, nothing is that important. It’s only life.
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
Guilt is the thief of life.
I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
I don’t have any [favourite role]. I’m just a working actor.
There’s many a good tune played by an old banjo.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
I never make conscious decisions.
I look in the mirror and I see the lines, but I don’t care. It’s a good time. I don’t know why it’s such a good time, but it’s a good time.
That’s what happens if you don’t address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.
I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it’s easier. I can’t work in the theater because to me it’s too serious. It’s like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can’t do it. I’d rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.
I’ve always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That’s why I became an actor – ’cause I couldn’t do anything else.
