People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

If the knocking at the door is twice, it is not opportunity, it is postman.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

If the knocking at the door is loud and long, it is not opportunity, it is your relatives.