People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

In some ways, except that in that movie [Skyfall] I was mostly screaming and running away from the bad guys, whereas in this one I'm generally jumping into the action and fighting with them. So, yeah, it was somewhat similar, but also very different.

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.