Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
Id like an omelet named after me.
I'd like an omelet named after me.
Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.
For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.
It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.
As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.
Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.
For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.
I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.
Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.
I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.
It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.
I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.
My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.
The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.
Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.
My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.