I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

A script is like a theory of a movie.

Goals determine what your going to be

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

Testimony is contingent on experience, that's why we're all free spirits

The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so.