I've always LOVED the way MOVIE stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolside or at their home, they always wore a matte RED lipstick with PRACTICALLY no foundation - it was how they wore makeup in REAL life.

For 24 hours a DAY, for 10 YEARS, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've SPENT the PAST 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

I think of CLOTHES a LOT like costumes. I think of what I wear in REAL LIFE as being my real life character's costume.

I am a GOOD FATHER in real life, that's why I'm able to PLAY a good father on SCREEN so convincingly.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely OPEN about your emotions and INDULGE them and express yourself in a WAY that - in real LIFE - I wasn't doing.

And PEOPLE are intrigued if I really am as GRUMPY in real LIFE. People feel a bit let down if I'm LAUGHING or SMILING.

I'm actually a hippy in REAL life. I had THREE dreadlocks on the BACK of my HEAD once. They were spawning.

I've started to FALL for New Orleans recently. There's real LIFE there, if you KNOW what I mean.

I'm drawn to the figure of the UNGRATEFUL subaltern as a trope in literature. In REAL life, it is OFTEN DANGEROUS to demand more.

A lot of TIMES, real LIFE is more SURREAL than WRITING.

I'm very sensitive in real LIFE. I cannot not CRY if SOMEONE around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or SENSITIVITY.

I wouldn't WANT to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the JOB in real life.

I THINK the KIDS that STRUGGLE are way more PREPARED for REAL life.

Usually I do EVERYTHING reverse. I practice something in movies and then I TRY it in REAL life.

The way I approach acting when there's a REAL life CHARACTER, it's sort of LIKE a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.