My friends have always called me ‘Mr. Thorough,’ in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It’s all about how much something’s going to stretch me or test me.
And I’m slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she’s just stunning. And she’s bright, which is incredibly sexy.
I’ve always had a slightly overactive imagination.
I’m very interested in religion as something to study, but I’m not a religious person in the slightest.
The American version of ‘The Office’ is fantastic.
A friend often says I’m an old man in a young man’s husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
I’m somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.
You don’t have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.
I’m very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you’re allowed to tell Jewish jokes.
People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
When you’re in the position I’m in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don’t know what it’s like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
I’ll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It’s all about the girl – but she has to be curvy!
I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I’m never happier than when I’m on a film set. I just want to keep working.
I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.
Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I’ve made through acting, in terms of another actor. He’s fantastic.
I just have this fear that I’ll get on stage and there’ll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I’ll forget my line.
The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That’s what it can be broken down to.
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it’s even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.