I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

I've always played very human sort of characters.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.