Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

I have a fear of being boring.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

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