Now the essence the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so and lo it presently turns out to be so.

Nothing says holidays like a cheese log.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work and there's life and there's no balance.

The father figure is something I love but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions I beg you.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted more than anything else to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

To me as long as we've known each other I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

When you're a chef you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work the first thing I'll do and especially when I'm in New York I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it but that's not the way to produce good work.

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.