The bad boy: always more fun.
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
I don't do social media.
What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
Acting's boring.
I'm a child of the Sixties.
I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
