Actor

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

I hope I inspire children to make films.

There are lots of things that keep me awake at night, but work isn't one of them. I mean, no-one's going to die if someone doesn't like what I do. So I don't feel a great pressure.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

I work in public.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

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

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

I love a good suit.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.