"I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes."
"I'm not very good at strategizing."
"If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row."
"You have to go where the good writing is."
"You just have to take control of your own performance."
"Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting."
"I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo."
"I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to."
"Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist."
"I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet."
"You know, I think I am faintly spiritual."
"I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there."
"You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night."
"I'm one of those pesky Brits."
"It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan."
"I've always been a narcissist."
"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."
"A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable."
"I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show."
"I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it."
"I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model."
"I'm always forming bands."
"Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people."
"There are lots of different reasons to choose roles."
"You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'"