Tom Wilkinson

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.