Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me..

I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, o….

I was brought up by my grandparents. So people go, oh, what was that like? That must have been hard. And you go: No, it wasn't.' It was just complete….

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money..

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do beli….

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights..

Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage cert….

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest..

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be..

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something..

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet ….

Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always inter….

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambition….

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920..

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons….

I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there'….

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, wh….

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much..

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's r….

I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playin….

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness..