Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
Actors should never give interviews.
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I hate the domestic life.
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
