I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

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.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'