Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.