Zitat des Tages über Anthony Hopkins:
An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?
I honed my passion for acting in theatre and education, and I think it's important not to belittle the child audience.
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
Well, I need to be frightened on a regular basis.
I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
I hate myself and my face in particular.
I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.
I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo, I've never met a nice poet.
What an extraordinary world it is.
My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.
It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.
I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.
If I have to look a certain way for something, I know how long it's going to take me do it.
A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'
I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.
People come up to me in pubs - gay pubs, mind you - and can't believe that I'm gay.
Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
I was really bored in school because I couldn't do what I wanted to do, which was act. And then when I was 14, a local TV company came to the youth theater, and they were auditioning kids to be in this new TV series.
If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.
I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 'this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be doing.' Since I've started coming to the States, I've had a really great response. It's given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices.
I have a fear of being boring.
The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
One thing I learnt was that you don't have to spend all day shooting: you can get it done in half an hour if you're that talented as a cameraman.