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

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.

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.

Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine, ' but it's really, really true.

The library is the temple of learning.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need.

Like it or not, males have a tendency to wander a little bit. What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

Their rage supplies them with weapons.