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

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" The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. "

" I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. "

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

" I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. "

" Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money. "

" Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. "

" When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school. "

" I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. "

" It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle. "

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

" Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. "

" There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.' "

" I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room. "

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

" On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually. "

" I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. "

" I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. "

" How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud. "

" I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills. "

" Political correctness has become a straightjacket. "

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" Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically. "

" Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. "

" We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies. "

" There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. "

" I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line. "

" People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy. "

" I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him. "

" Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men. "