Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

I love being grungy and dirty.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

I believe that art has incredible power.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.