“If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.”

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don’t intentionally go for dark.

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I’m gonna do that is to commit 110% – you get out what you put in.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There’s got to be something a little bit loose in there.

An actor should never be larger than the film he’s in.

I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

I don’t get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can’t help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

I never, in any city I’ve ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn’t know the name of the next street over.

All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn’t mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn’t have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

I have a lot of admiration for people who’ve been in relationships a long time, married for years.

The world is conditioned to admire flowers. Keep watering your roots.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.