I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.
I love doing just nothing in my free time.
I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse.
I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower.
I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.
I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?
You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff.
I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It's not one mass or tribe. Everybody's got a different story.
I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.
It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond.
It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.
I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.
I sometimes find that playing the bad guy, or villains, or psychopaths tend to be much more psychologically rewarding. And you can really push it, you can push the limits, and get away with it.
Where I come from, all of us wanted to be footballers. We played all the time; that's all we did at school or wherever until it went dark and you couldn't see the ball.
I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.
For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes?
The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.
It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that.
I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
I go to see my kids in school plays.
I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.
Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional.
If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.
It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.
I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.
When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.
When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.
You don't necessarily equate me with humor!
Obviously I'm delighted I'm a grandfather, but I guess it takes a little while to digest. You start thinking, 'Oh, I'm half-way over the natural life span. So this is the last bit, and I'd better enjoy it.'
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
Football is a passionate game. It excites us.
Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.
I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.
Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.'
I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.
My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.
