The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

- Paul Bettany

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about i…

- Paul Bettany

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of tell…

- Paul Bettany

I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?

- Paul Bettany

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

- Paul Bettany

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

- Paul Bettany

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

- Paul Bettany

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

- Paul Bettany

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal…

- Paul Bettany