Occupation: Actor Birth: June 28, 1972
For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don….
A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might ….
You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't eve….
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor..
Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming..
Yeah, I’ve played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up and I’ve even had to play music in a lot of films that I’ve done..
I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here..
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic ma….
Géza Röhrig is just incredible because he's not an actor, he's a Hungarian poet. He also happens to be a brilliant actor. He's totally unusual, the w….
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it..
Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses..
People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough….
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me.….
With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture….
I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid..
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film..
There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the thing….
Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression….
I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor..
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am..
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor..