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" I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing. "

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" When you do something well, this is the best job in the world. "

" I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. "

" It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries. "

" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "

" We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it. "

" I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. "

" It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night. "

" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "

" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "

" Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great. "

" 'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that. "

" I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' "

" You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go. "

" I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work. "

" Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance. "

" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "

" I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. "

" I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy. "

" For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys. "

" I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. "

" I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything. "

" Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines. "

" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "

" The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level. "

" When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...' "

" The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that. "

" Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. "

" I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. "

" You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. "

" I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in. "