I withdrew after Shakespeare in Love (1998) and went back to the theater, to what I know. I went back to what my initial voice was, which was to find a range and freedom and a creative energy. If that meant not following up with a typical leading-man role...
But it`s a strange thing when people judge you because you`re not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?
I don`t read reviews. I can always spot an actor who`s read his reviews, because if they`re good, he`s swaying about the stage, and if they`re bad, he`s changed his performance. He comes in limping or something.
I`ve got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.