If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.