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

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

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.'

Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.