I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more.".

People talk about me in Arcadia and I think I was okay in it but Ive given better performances in other productions that didnt have the same impact. ….

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door..

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles..

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,….

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

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….

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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….

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….

Hollywood is my domestic idyll..

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….

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

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….

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