England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.