You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.