Actor

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I suppose I should now say I care a lot about 3D. I've always loved 3D, I think everything should be 3D, and I think it's just a shame 'The Godfather' wasn't in 3D.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.