I think the older I get, the less I should be doing..

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months..

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you….

Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch..

I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things..

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act ….

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad….

I like television that grabs you by your throat..

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely differe….

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect..

I've never been "celeb-y" actor. You know, you don't catch me falling out of nightclubs at three o'clock in the morning. Well, very rarely! But I fin….

To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was wa….

If you're playing Hitler, you don't play Hitler as an asshole. Hitler believed what he was doing was right. Any of those monsters and any serial kill….

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%..

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way ….

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do..

Ancient Rome was a violent place..

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything..

I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one….

One of the things that makes this so topical right now is that I think there are an awful lot of American men - and women, but I'm a man, so that's w….

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's th….