I'm 5'9" and have the body of an English person that doesn't know how to diet..

Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it was quite a genial set ….

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get ….

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents..

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box o….

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them mak….

Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and ….

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakesp….

Carey Mulligan is completely self-possessed. She knows what she's doing, and again, quite like the big-hitters I was talking about, my job was just t….

My very first friend was my stand-in, who's a very dear friend to this day, and she kind of saved my ass. She told me where to stand and where the ca….

Roman Polanski actually said as much to me once. He had his head in his hands, and I said, "Roman, I've got to tell you, as an actor, seeing the dire….

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children ….

I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncer….

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day..

For me, selfishly, The Postman didn't kill my career. It meant I didn't shoot straight and painfully into the limelight, but Rushmore came out of it.….

It's funny, when people want things to be very truthful and you're dealing with an inexperienced actor. I'm of the school that believes things like t….

My agents were like "Come to L.A., we've got meetings for you." I was like "No, I'm doing this now." Then my father became very ill back in England, ….

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs..

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop bre….

There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work, but that was my first experience o….

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one..