My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.
Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.
Id like an omelet named after me.
The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.
Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.
Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.
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.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
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.
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.
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
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 think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
Hollywood is my domestic idyll.
People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. But I knew Arcadia was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
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.
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.
Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.
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.
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."
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'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.
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. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
