To Play A Repressed Gay Man, I

I Realise That I Do Not Change The Course Of History. I Am An Actor, I Do A Movie, That's The End Of It. You Have To Realise We Are Just Clowns For Hire. After I Had Success It Was Great, At First, Not To Worry About Money. It Was On My Mind When I Was Growing Up.

Our Planet's Alarm Is Going Off, And It Is Time To Wake Up And Take Action!

The More I've Acted, I've Realised That I Have A) No Control Of And B) No Way Of Really Quite Understanding How People React To Anything I Do, Or Any Movie I Do.

At First I Thought I Would Have To Put On An English Accent And Try A Sort Of Affected Shakespeare Thing.

We [ With Russel Crowe] Had An Arabic Coach There [ In The Body Of Lies] That Was Really Helpful, Because It Was More So Than Any Accent. You Have To Be So Exact, And There's Different Dialects Of Arabic From Country To Country So It Was Really, Really Difficult To Tell You The Truth. And One Of The Hardest Things I've Ever Had To Do Language-wise, Because It Comes From The Throat. It's Different. And Also Learning About The Customs And The Culture And All That, So We Had Advisors For That Sort Of Thing.