My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's persp….

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work..

I wasnt a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading….

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge..

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while..

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident..

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions..

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been b….

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what y….

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English f….

If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent,….

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting..

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise..

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money..

Id like an omelet named after me..

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all t….

Hollywood is my domestic idyll..

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change..

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite..

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know..

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am..