In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.

To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.