When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.

I probably wanted to be a shopkeeper, because I like tills.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

Only the right pain gets the right gain.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

If you continue with that train of thought and end it with, I did it because I love you and can’t bear to see you in turmoil, you could sell it to Hallmark, but not to me!

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

You are pretty smart. But your body is smarter.

Evil then results from imperfection.

And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.