Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Every director is completely different.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.

There is a light in every soul.

A gloomy face drives friends away

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.