If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them..

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who….

I would still like to go to the moon before I die..

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that..

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so..

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of eve….

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impac….

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody els….

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy..

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others..

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge..

It's well known that actors are lousy writers..

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen..

Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and d….

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later..

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s..

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people..

The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more ….

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!.

I like fixing things..