I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.
I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn’t feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn’t feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.
I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me – meeting someone and becoming a father.
You cant spend your life apologizing.
I’m not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I’ve done it’s pretty obvious I’m not going to make a ‘Mission: Impossible.’
I’ve always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I’d rather be the Wicked Witch.
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn’t feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance – I find it genius because it’s ultimate expression, really.
I’m kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don’t understand wanting to read about other people’s dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.
I’ve never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.
There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I’ve regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
Landing a role now is not based on my looks – more on my acting ability.
When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.
The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.
It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I’m not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn’t one.
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.
Personally speaking there’s only so long you can go from film to film to film. There’s an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.