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" For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in. "

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" Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose. "

" I wasn't 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 it out. "

" I'd like an omelet named after me. "

" 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. "

" If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long. "

" I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. "

" I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change. "

" People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. "

" For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else. "

" I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. "

" Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head. "

" I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do. "

" My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective. "

" I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights. "

" The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse. "

" I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that. "

" I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England. "

" I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release. "

" It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am. "

" I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. "

" Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back. "

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

" I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. "

" At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted. "

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

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" I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. "

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