I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Strategy is born when a calculated risk meets an educated guess

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

I believe that we learn by practice.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.