I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it’s not going to happen.
Grief jumps out at you when you’re least expecting it.
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.
It’s funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people’s expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you’ve done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you’re capable of.
You never know really what anyone thinks about you – that’s why all my closest friends are ones I’ve had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.
Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you’re trying to be funny. If you’re not funny, then it’s really embarrassing and you look stupid.
There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He’s such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.
I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
I suppose theres an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!
You want to know if anyone’s going to go see your film. You shouldn’t worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.
I’m always in awe of directors because they’re just holding so much stuff in the air. They’ve got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.
I think women are great drivers. To be honest, I’ve only been in one car accident – one of my best friends, his wife was driving. She went into oncoming traffic, our car flipped almost four times. I didn’t even have time to put on a seat belt, because they’d just picked me up.
I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.
I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn’t still have that same dream.
You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.