I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that.

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.

I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.