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"Unless you have a scandal like nanny-gate, you're going to be left alone. Unless you're like Keira, or Angelina or Brad Pitt..."
"As an actor, there's a lot of talking about yourself. So I think I've learned how dangerous it is to treat yourself and your personality and your life as a commodity. If you sell it cheaply, you're not going to get much back."
"I got a job in a local bakery and stayed there for two years. I can do you a nice butterfly bun, or a lovely gateau."
"I'm mostly here through luck, and I'm very grateful for it too. Nothing has come handed to me on a plate, and I still audition for every role, just as it should be."
"I was awful, but I somehow got the part." - on his audition for The Last King of Scotland
"I don't mind spending a little bit more to get a higher quality of carrot."
"The ceremony was fun but deeply surreal. Actually...it was fucking nuts." - on going to the 2007 Academy Awards
"We're in a horrible, repugnant place now where kids are told it's their right and due to be hugely famous. Not good at their job, not good at anything, just hugely famous. This is not sane. Little girls think they'll be famous if they have vast breast implants and might as well die if they don't."
"Where it gets difficult is when you get two or three jobs back to back where you're playing leads and doing 13, 14 hours a day, six days a week, and you suddenly think, hang on a minute, how can you have a life like this? Do I work to live or live to work? How can I work properly with no life to inform the work?"
"I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."
"I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy."
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