I find Hollywood really toxic.
I don’t believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
When I’m playing a character, I use the American accent. But when I go back to England, I just glide right back into Englishness immediately. Every actor uses a dialect coach. Every actor, and if they say they don’t, they’re lying. Everybody does, yeah. You don’t want to worry about it. You have someone listening out to check that you’re not straying.
The celebrity thing… I don’t want to sound as if I absolutely don’t want it because that’s not true. If you’re in the entertainment business, you have to be honest. There’s something alluring about it…
[on Darren Aronofsky] I guess the first impression was that I’d been a big admirer of his work, and then I met someone who you’d never have put with that work. There was something very refreshing about that. I thought I was going to meet someone who was very intense and weird.
It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.
There’s a lot of contemporary actresses I admire, but there’s practically no one who’s made a color movie whose career I’d want … I don’t feel very modern at all.
[on marriage] I’m a fan of marriage, but more for other people right now than for myself.
Well, my sort of stability as a character, it’s never been one of my strongest attributes. I’m a bit of a clusterf*ck. I get so many great ideas that I kind of mesmerize people with another plan before the previous plan is hatched out; people run away, pull their hair off, go off in different directions, nodding their heads, and going, Oh, god”.
In my neighborhood if you’re too aggressive, you intimidate someone, they kill you. Or if you decide to be emotional and you start crying, you’re a victim. You know, the kid in the schoolyard that doesn’t want to fight always leaves with a black eye. You have to find a way to stay in the middle, somewhere where people just don’t mess with you because they know that you don’t have a problem with it if it goes there.
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
The guys that don’t respect that history and tradition, I don’t think they’re going to be around all that long. And those guys who don’t know the history and tradition, I think it’s upon them to learn about it pretty quick if they want to be a success.
I see my role as a baby doctor helping people deliver their babies. I felt the same way in the music industry.
Everyone wants to be black so bad I wake up feeling so exclusive!
I always thought that was so strange that people would try to corral you and pigeonhole you in one category and not play you anywhere else.
There is no such thing as ugly. That’s a word that doesn’t really enter my vocabulary. If there’s any definition to being perfect, you’re perfect at being yourself.
In the past, I had workaholic issues.
Twitter seems like a busman’s holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I’ll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I’m old-fashioned that way.
I’d like to win an Oscar.
All I can say is that it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you’re young and foolish.
Find something that makes you happy and go for it!
