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

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.

I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

I've always liked the idea of regularly doing a play but I was offered things which I felt were too 'celebie' and West Endy.

It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

I'd like an omelet named after me.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

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

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

Of course, I want to look good, as that helped me get jobs. But it didn't get me the jobs I wanted and it held me back.