I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

I'm always looking for something that's versatile from the last.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

Do not prove but be yourself.

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.