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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. "

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" 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 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. "

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

" I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions. "

" 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. "

" I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "

" I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground. "

" 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. "

" For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back. "

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

" I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention. "

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

" A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. "

" I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life. "

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

" 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'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing. "

" 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. "

" 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous. "

" My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. "

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