“I don’t know any family that doesn’t have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn’t have those things in life, you’d be so bland.”

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of access. It’s like, if you’re dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

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

I need to keep reinventing myself.

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

I’m amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I’m so lucky, though my mum always says, ‘You make your own luck.’

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

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

I don’t do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn’t have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it’s changed everything in so many ways.

If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is unattainable. With dyslexia comes a very great gift, which is the way that your mind can think creatively.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It’s an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I missed my home – like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country – culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

I think it’s sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

I’m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

I spend more time with Gucci Mane or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares about contracts?

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

My grandma told me that to be wealthy you need at least seven streams of income, so that’s my goal. I have a big family. I want to take care of everybody.

Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.

There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn’t seem right, but 300, they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.

I welcome criticism. I come from a – I wouldn’t say mean, but you’ve got to have tough skin to be in my family.