To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

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

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

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?'

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.