Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

Since real spies are so good, you never really know what actual spying is. But I do think spying is a lot more dangerous than we are led to believe.