Occupation: Actor Birth: February 11, 1971
You know, I think I am faintly spiritual..
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth sli….
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'.
You just have to take control of your own performance..
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience..
My heroes were all in the theatre..
People need revelation, and then they need resolution..
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie..
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part..
I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I….
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV o….
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me..
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having ….
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet..
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school..
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical ap….
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy..
You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.….
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story..
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class struct….
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there..