At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.

As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.