All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time.

I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.