Our pool is outdoors, but it's heated, and I've got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it's in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.
From Rupert Penry-Jones
The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.
I get very few nasty letters. A few from people who disapprove of the fact that I'm getting naked on television yet again. I don't know why - I suppose they don't like the idea that I'm doing that while I'm married with children.
Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.
Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.
I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.
Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.
What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up to me at a party and says, 'Oh, I've been dying to meet you. I've had such a crush on you.'
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
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