In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I know if something worked and should have been in there for the benefit of the story and the benefit of the character.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet