If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way..

I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know….

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind o….

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film..

I became a dancer late and an actor late..

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino..

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts..

I think 40 years ago, it would have been a little bit different because people had a tendency to think the actor was their part. I do find people who….

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, r….

I'd just love to see the next Star Wars films when they come out because I'm very into the whole universe and the stories. So they're always rewardin….

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film..

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right. I’m not ambitious about my career, but I ….

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology..

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a s….

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is a….

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can te….

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water.

I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on..

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them..

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe..

I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast withou….