You can’t win. The annoying thing is that you can’t attack them, but you can’t defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday.
The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn’t realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn’t matter.
I really like Nicki Minaj. I think she’s great.
When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything’s going to come out and be amazing.
I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn’t fear anything.
Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I’d love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who’s without illusions, he created.
If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I’m never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.
You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it’s all in your head.
I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I’d have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I’m really sexy.
I don’t know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.
One of the interesting things about having an international fanbase is that every single country has a different reaction to you and to the movie.
I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, ‘Give your best horror scream,’ and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!
I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!
In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.
I don’t know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I’m not looking specifically at any genre.
I didn’t want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I’d end up as some sort of caricature.
I don’t really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, ‘Rubbish!’
I don’t know if I’m particularly funny, I mean one of my legs is shorter than the other one, it makes everything look very awkward, so I can just pretty much look like an idiot, but I don’t know whether I can be like witty. It could be a problem.
If it’s just screaming – and I know this sounds so ridiculous – that gets old. But sometimes when there’s literal chaos, it’s like being in a war zone, and that’s kind of exciting. You’re just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what’s going on.
I like being meticulous and it’s quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.