When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I love going out. I love partying.

I just don't know anything about fashion.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Anything worthwhile is opposed.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man

The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.