Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.
Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.
Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.
I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.
Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.
A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.
I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.