The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.
I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
To be serious, the things you really want to relive are things like bedtime with your daughter when she becomes incredibly entertaining 'cause she doesn't want to go to sleep. They're at their most enchanting 'cause they just want to put it off, so they do a cabaret for you. You sit there thinking, "Please don't let this end."
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.
Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.
With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.
I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.
When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.
I'm not a royal family watcher.
