I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.
I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'
I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.
I can't imagine doing anything except acting.
As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.
I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.
The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good.
I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film.
It's important to enjoy who you are and to appreciate things around you.
I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.'
At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it.
I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
Working in a garden calms me down.
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.
