I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something that are now there's just lots of rusty hulks of buildings and a lot of people wandering around, a lot of alcoholism and violence because people have got nothing to do and no work. Yet people were very generous.
I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.
Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.
Conservative's the last thing I am.
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.
Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
I started watching golf for the first time yesterday. I`m really worried about myself. I was actually enjoying it.
I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.
It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.
Everyone has to understand what we're saying to one another and there's no point in me thinking the line means this and the person I'm speaking to thinks it means something else. So there's a certain amount of analyzing of text that's of course necessary.
I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.
I don't like being told that's where you, you know, if you walk on set and somebody was "okay, you're here and you're going to walk over there on this line." And my reaction is always how do you know? How do you know that's what I'm going to do? How do any of us know?
I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man or a woman. I find the idea of love and romance interesting. I'm a sucker for it. I like playing someone who's falling in love because I like the sensation of it. People do extraordinary things when they're falling in love.
You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.
I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.
If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.
I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.
When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.
You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.
