It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.