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

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" 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. "

" I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life. "

" I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor. "

" As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could. "

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