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.

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.

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.

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.

Risks must balance rewards.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.