Quotes from Matthew Goode

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.