“Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.”

“I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.”

“I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.”

“I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.”

“I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.”

“I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.”

“I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.”

“I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.”

“I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.”

“Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.”

“The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.”

“When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.”

“When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.”