If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

I get invited to literally every single movie premiere that's going on.

I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing.

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.