'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.
I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.
In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.
I'm not a very good actor.
I spend the majority of my life not acting.
Some people are defined by what they do.
'1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related.
If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.
I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.
It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.
My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.
I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.
If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff.
I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl.
I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.
The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.
I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it's meant to be acted.
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.
I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.
