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You cant spend your life apologizing.
You can't spend your life apologizing.
A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.
I think the message of peace is for everyone.
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.
Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.
I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.
I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.
Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.
I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.
Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.
There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.
I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.
I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]
I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like.
I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'
I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'
The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.
You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!
In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.
I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.
I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'
I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that`s going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.
I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
In a weird way, it’s kind of a relief to think, ‘Oh, I know I’m not that young sort of pretty thing anymore.’ It’s quite nice talking about what it was like to be the young pretty thing, rather than being it.