Being on tour is a giggle.

Every species has its pub.

A pub can be a magical place.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

Club DJs don't talk to the crowd.

I play really bad punk rock guitar.

Film can become stagnant as a medium.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.

The war on drugs is being lost on a daily basis.

Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

There aren't many odysseys in cinema for characters.

Howard Marks is a great friend and a great Welshman.

If you've got a camera, go to a war zone and tell a story.

Spider-Man is a school boy that's looking for his parents.

Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.

Don't be late. Learn your lines. Be good to people. Treat people nice.

It's a great life being an actor, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

When I was young, I was in a hurry to live. And now I'm just not in a hurry.

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

I think Liverpool generates generosity which rubs off - it's a good place to work and to party.

I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

Welsh women aren't the most tactile unless they're your relatives. And then you don't want them to be.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

On a conventional film, you do one take, and if it's good, they say, 'Let's do another one for insurance.'

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.

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