I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan.

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

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?'

I wanted to become a painter for a while. I think it was because I was lazy.

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.