I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.