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The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.
Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.
Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.
As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.
I think the early years, the first decade of your life, is the most formative in a way.
I think everyone should do what they love because it will never feel like work that way.
Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.
I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.
We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.
America and Europe are so different in the way they conceive of themselves and art and cinema.
You've got to do something, even if it's just to kick-start the day. I use music. And running.
There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.
The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.
There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!
Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.
Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.
I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].
The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.
Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.
When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.
If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.
I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.
I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.
I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.
It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.
Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.
It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.
Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
The bit I love is I really love acting, really, and the circus of being a celebrity is something I'm sort of not interested in. I find it strange.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
I personally feel that people feel very reassured by nature because it makes us feel small and that's a good thing for human beings and for society.
I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it.
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that is untouched by man.
I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.
We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.
Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.
Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.
One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.
I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from