We are kidding ourselves if we don’t think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It’s what funds governments. It’s too much money to ignore.
I guess you could say I’ve been in my share of violent movies.
I never had any boyhood ambitions.
I know what I like in other actors: truth. That’s the best. It makes you say, ‘OK, I’ll go with you on this.’
When you’re making movies you’ve got to get obsessive.
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.
I’m quite good at leaning against a bar.
I always wanted to make movies.
I’m not James Bond. There’s your headline! It’s very clear to me that he’s the furthest from my character that it’s possible to be. It’s somebody I play.
It’s not the job of an actor to judge your character.
I just felt that you can’t have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That’s why the movie is called ‘Quantum of Solace’ – that’s exactly what he’s looking for.
I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed in the past, then threw all that away once I started doing the role.
I can’t really dress rock ‘n’ roll any more because I’m the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
The subject matter is very tricky. It’s about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it’s a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
A secret is a secret in my mind.
I didn’t want to do a zoo show. I didn’t want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists – I count some of them as friends – also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk – great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right.
Privacy is important. Anybody who doesn’t think that, they’re crap. But I know I’m going to lose some of that and that’s something I’ll have to deal with.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.