I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.