I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

The Peugeot is a very unthreatening car.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

So many of us have settled for what is, rather than what could be.

A person who is confident and capablewill never feel insecure.

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.