I'm not better than anyone else.
Clive Owen
The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
Audiences can be very judgmental.
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.
I don't think I've ever had a real fashion disaster.
If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.
I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.
I just love playing good guys.
Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.
I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.
I'd like to do a film which is funny.
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
Rudeness can make me angry.
Good dialogue is very important.
I was at the birth of my two girls.
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.
I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.
I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
I'm just a working actor.
For me really good acting is about subtext.
I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
I don't play video games.
I was not a very fearful kid, really.
I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.
When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.
