Rupert Penry-Jones

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.'

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign - I can't remember which designer - and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: 'We'd like to use you, but can you come back next year when you've lost this.' And he tapped the underside of his chin.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

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.

I'm worried about losing my hair. I think if I lost my hair, I'd lose a lot of parts. And I don't want to get fat. I'm always worried about that.

Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.

I have two beautiful children, a wife who loves me very much and who I love - and my career is going well, too.

I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer.

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.