You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.
We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.
An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'
It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.
The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
I haven't got a writer's discipline.
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.
It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.
I love a really good storyline.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.
