Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.
I got a phone call from Jon Favreau saying, 'I need the voice of a personality-less robot, and I thought of you immediately.' I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard, so I said, 'Yes.'
I resist the idea of there being on-screen chemistry. I think it's something that people like to say without thinking.
I'm never late, and I love that. Because when you've got three kids and a life to be living, and somebody's half an hour late to set, you start to get a little bit like, 'Come on. Come on, let's get this done.'
I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'
I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.
Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.
We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
No one I know works in the industry. No, that's not true - Liv Tyler.
I think the success of the Marvel films comes from the fact that they're made by fans. They really love those characters. When I first came out dressed as Vision, Kevin Feige nearly cried.
I know great actors whom nothing has ever happened for.
Sure, you can do something frothy and ridiculous, but you should probably be confident that it's going to be a sure-fire hit. Then it's sensible, because it enables you to make smaller movies. But if you make something frothy and ridiculous that doesn't work, it's not worth it.
I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.
I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.
There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.
Film used to have to be niche and find its audience in a little art house cinema, and TV had to work for everybody. And now it's kind of flipped where there's so many platforms that TV can be incredibly niche.
I loved working with Peter Weir. I think he's one of the greats and will be remembered as one of the greats.
You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.
In marriage, there's a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.
