Quotes

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

I don't crave Hollywood.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I'm too much of a big kid.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

[2006] Smoking is a huge pleasure, when I do do it. I have gone through 30-a-day phases, but I never like the feeling that I have got to have one. A cigarette tastes much nicer when you have a pair of oxygenated lungs to start with.