Everybody has to know for themselves what they’re capable of.
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal… has always been the work of other actors.
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
For about a year, I just didn’t know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you’re suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
