I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
I think I've benefited from not being hugely known. It means I have to do something really effective to be noticed.
I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.