Communication is important.

It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing.

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

I'm pretty romantic.

When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.

I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I'd rather spend it on an experience, like traveling.

Darren Aronofsky is on another level. You get lost in a scene, and he'll come over and whisper something in your ear, and suddenly everything makes sense.

I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

I'm a huge festival fan. I love to dance and dance all night long.

I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

I think I'm low-maintenance.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I saw 'The Fountain' because my friend came over one day and said, 'This is my favorite movie I've ever seen. Please watch this,' and I watched it, and that was amazing.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I tried to forget about playing Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet' and just think about him as a normal guy, as a normal character, and just try and approach him the same I would every other character.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.

I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.

I saw 'Othello' at the National Theatre in London, and it was so stunning. I was so moved. It's beautiful.

Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.