I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

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.

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

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.

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'