I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

For me, London is and always will be home.

Good dialogue is very important.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

I always want my options to be open.

I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan.

I am comfortable around babies and children because I have two of my own.

I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I come from a very working-class background.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach.

I do wear suits all the time.

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

I don't play video games.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.

I just love playing good guys.

I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

I really believe you can carry yourself in such a way that people don't notice you.

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

I think there is a lot of overexplaining both in writing and acting. People don't need to be hit on the head.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

I want to go anywhere and everywhere and explore as much as I can.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.