In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is whats required to achieve what I want to achieve.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

I am an actor through and through.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.