The thing as an actor is you get a sense of what a show is like the minute you walk on the set.

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.