The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking ….

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did th….

When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or de….

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy w….

I want to know everything. I'm probably a bit of a pest for the producers because I ask a lot of questions..

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research..

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film..

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero..

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back..

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you k….

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before, you expl….