I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.

A part of being an actor is I people watch. I like to observe their behaviour, watch their reactions on the street and see how they talk to each other, and that's impossible when they are looking back at you. I used to enjoy taking the train and watching people in their own minds, struggling with themselves.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.