Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you do pick the same choices, just as a matter of course - not because someone else did it first, but because it was the best choice to make. But any actor worth his salt makes something their own.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.