You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.

I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

That tag - underwear model - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.