The risk element only came from acknowledging other people's attitudes toward it, and realizing that they considered it to be a risk for me to do.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

It was a great honor to be called a mo-fo by Sam Jackson.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.