When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...'

People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along.

You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.

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