Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected..

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day..

Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way..

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that..

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a ….

I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in bein….

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven….

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize abo….

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get b….

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then..

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am..

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera..

I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that….