Actor Quotes

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

People named their kids after me!

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.

Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we're brought up to believe that we can't show them.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.