Actor Quotes

If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.

Eating people is wrong.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

I play characters. I don't think I really have a persona per se. I don't play the same guy every time. I show up, you don't know what I'm gonna do. I like it that way. I've intentionally tried to do it that way. I think that's what's interesting.

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too serio

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.