You Can't Do Something That

I've Had Loss In My Life, And I Like To Think My Mother's Energy Lives On In Some Faintly Buddhist Way. I Do Find Some Comfort There.

You Know, This Idea Of Going Around The World Imposing Democracy By Growing A Middle-class, A Trading Merchant Class That Is Independent Of Your Faith, Is A Good Notion, But We're All Partially Different - It's No Good Imposing Systems On People That It Doesn't Suit.

Theres Something Important, As An Actor, About Allowing Yourself To Be Approached By People To Do Roles. People See Different Things In You.

There Are Ways Of Avoiding Becoming Tabloid Fodder And Therefore Giving People License To Pry Into Your Private Life. And There's A Distinction Between Being An Actor And Being A Celebrity. You May Become A Celebrity Through Acting, But You Don't Need To Do So.

I Always Resented Tom [hardy] For Turning Up On Band Of Brothers And Getting The Girl — In Fact, The Only Girl In A Cast Of Hundreds Of Smelly Men! I, On The Other Hand, Spent Eight Months With My Face Squashed Up Against Someone Else’s Backside In One Sodden Trench After Another. And It Looks As If Tom Might Have Got The Girl Again [in Colditz], Damn His Eyes.