I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?