I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

A true lover never fails, a failure never can love.

'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

In short, I don't root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America.

Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.