When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.