- “Hollywood exists on a trinity of products - popcorn, coke and the movie. I’m not quite sure what means the most to them.”
- “I like getting ambiguous responses from people. I’m not up there in a glass cage to be admired and for people to be enchanted by me. I like to mix it up. Audiences shouldn’t be passive creatures. They come to work.”
- “I don’t mind seducing as long as at the end of the seduction there’s an idea or a shock. You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.”
- “Talent is an accident of genes — and a responsibility. You are given this thing and everybody has talent… mine just happens to be for acting and that creates a situation like this. It is a strange and powerful responsibility.”
- “Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.”
- “One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It’s an inverse equation, if that’s the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.”
- “…if I had children, I’d like to think I’d let them wear whatever they wanted. None of my friends would believe me, but I’d let them walk down the road in pink Lurex and gold plastic.”
- “Actually, I’ve kissed some of the greatest actresses around– Fiona Shaw, Harriet Walter, Juliet Stevenson…”
- “Die Hard was a classic of its kind, and I’m happy to have been in it, because I probably wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you without it.”
- “I’ll go where the scripts take me. Actors don’t exert as much choice over their careers as you may think. Good scripts don’t just waft their way towards you. I love going all over the globe and that is much of the charm of movies.”
- “It’s fun being naughty.”
- “I’m a lot less serious than people think, it’s probably because the way my face is put together.”
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