Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

You cant spend your life apologizing.

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

You can't spend your life apologizing.

Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

I just want to have a nice, happy life.

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I love life because what more is there?

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.