It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.

I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I once blurted out that I found it impossible to bond with my son Winston because I was too tired. I mean how bloody awful does that sound? What a tosser!

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

Do not let the transient bitterness of the journey steal happiness from your life.

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

I grew up in a family of secrets there was a lot of pathology in the family.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

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