A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.