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I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.
I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
Always asked, 'Whats the key to success?' The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry and always be the hardest worker in the room.
If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life.
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.
For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels.
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
In most cities, it doesn't cost much to put your own show on a local access channel, so you get all sorts of strange stuff on the air.
What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
I'm a huge 'South Park' fan, loved 'Avenue Q,' and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez, and Casey Nicholaw.
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.
I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.
I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
To get to wear the costume of Evel Knievel, are you kidding me? When I was a kid, I had Superman. I had Spiderman. I had Evel Knievel.
Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.
I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.
You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.
I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.
Speed I like. I do love driving and I've had a couple of those experiences where you go to a track and can test cars around the track.
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."
When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.
There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.
If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.