I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.

You can’t really legislate for the decisions that your heart makes.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.