When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous.

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.