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" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "

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" I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "

" I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. "

" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

" Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films. "

" I've been a big blagger all my life. "

" I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people. "

" All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing. "

" It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies. "

" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "

" I'm a terrible dancer. "

" I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public. "

" I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice. "

" It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever. "

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "

" My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "

" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent. "

" I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind. "

" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "

" That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that. "

" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

" My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English. "

" There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy. "

" I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP. "

" I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. "

" I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. "