Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors….

If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!.

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind ….

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to d….

The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!.

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a….

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's th….

You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed..

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two..

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no….

I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic dis….

I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live..

This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh….

Tequila is my salmon..

I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'E….

I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird bu….

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced ….

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places..

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right..

I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handi….

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings..