Actor

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

Film can become stagnant as a medium.

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

Acting is a tough, difficult job with long unsociable hours, although it can be a brilliant job, too. I don't want to complain too much, as nurses, farmers and teachers are out working long hours.

I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but I am convinced that the Stratfordian William Shakespeare was not. My feeling is that it was an amalgamation of many writers, in the same way that most films are a collaborative endeavor.

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.