[On his Emmy win] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.

As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.

A major figure in contemporary cinema, he is a major film producer, movie actor and frequent visitor.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

He does have, underneath a sort of serious exterior, a really wonderful sense of humor, ... It rarely shows itself in the trial lawyer mode, but it certainly does in personal relationships.