Category: Quotes

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it’s an organic thing. Whereas in the film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can’t live without each other.

I don’t know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from ‘Twilight’, which I didn’t really know was a heartthrob role. I really don’t feel I am one.

In all fields of creativity, you see the result of work that has become a habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

I’m incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I’m one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.

You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.