I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.
When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.
I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.
I was living in my coach's basement.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.
When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.
Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
I don't want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won't be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.
I've never really felt at home in L.A. I've only been here to work, and then I immediately go back to New York.
So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.
If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
I don't sleep well when I'm traveling, so there's nothing I like more than getting in my own bed.
Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.
I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.
Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.
The conditions are always slightly better back in the U.K. There's a lot of distractions when you play away in China and it's very easy to get on a bad run out there, with various things going on when you play.
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the Crown' in the Eighties. The man who was supposed to pick me up wasn't there, so I spent a very uncomfortable three hours phoning around hotels to find out where I was supposed to be. It was a major culture shock, but I adored India.
