You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy.
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.
Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.
I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.
I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.
I didn't become an actor because I thought I'd make lots of money.
I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.
The narrative that Peter Jackson has put into 'The Battle of the Five Armies,' it stands alone as a film. Rather than just finishing off the story, it's like a whole new adventure all of its own. I'm very excited about it.
People get to know me slowly and over the course of time. I'll probably still be a newcomer when I'm 60.
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.
Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.
I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.
I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.
I'd like to act in a film without special effects.
It's bloody annoying being shy. I'll spend a whole evening at a party asking everyone else about themselves. I'm not being self-deprecating; it's because I'm too shy to talk about myself. So people come away from the evening actually having learnt nothing about me.
I'd like to live off-grid.
I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.
You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.
I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.
