If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.