Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

Hope is the anchor of life.

A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can’t give up. Why die? There is always another mission

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Some things a lady doesn't tell.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

I enjoy the quiet life.