Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.