I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

And whenever I’m in a situation where I’m wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether...

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn’t know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Paris Hilton, that’s very interesting what she did. I’ve never done that. I haven’t really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault...

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.

At age 10 or 12 he’s going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don’t take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it’s going to be worth it, and then maybe I’ll surprise...

At the age of 12 I was going on to another boarding school in another part of the country. We change schools at 13 in this country.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

You have to communicate on a much greater scale, … With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or...

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don’t; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than...

Because I’m now successful, what I’m being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way...

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Actors often behave like children, and so we’re taken for children. I want to be grown up.

However, I wasn’t very good at the sciences, or didn’t have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn’t set science for my A level. And when I came to take...

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

It’s always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.

No, I don’t believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

Are you insane? Have you seen how many models there are here? Even he couldn’t afford the child support payments.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

I’m getting my singing voice back, cutting back on the cigarettes a fraction, and I’ve been rehearsing like mad, … Mine is an actor’s voice, not a singer’s voice, but the part was written for...

I envy children who know that they’re going to become doctors, know they’re going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that’s what I try...

Now the decision to play a role is halfway towards understanding the character, because you empathize with it and that’s why you want to play it.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way...

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I...

So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that...