I don't like myself without a beard.
Jamie Dornan
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no actor in the world who could live up to that.
'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.
My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.
No matter what happens in my career, I've always got 'The Fall.'
You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.
One of my favorite things about my life is that I have the same group of friends that I grew up with. I love them so dearly, and we give each other a hard time.
I feel pretty secure about who I am.
Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.
I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.
I grew up in a very liberal place.
If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.
A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.
It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
I don't think if you looked up all the main points of feminism I would tick every one essentially myself.
I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.
Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.
I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.
Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work in the place where I come from.
I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.
People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.
Nobody sane wants just to be famous.
I read a lot about serial killers.
I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.
When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
It's not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being 'cute.'
I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.
You'd be hard-pressed to find an actor who isn't a sex symbol somewhere.
I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag - 'underwear model' - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.
I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.
Addiction is a terrible thing.
Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.
I don't like my physique. Who does?
People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!
Everyone likes a bit of competition.
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.
People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.
I'm probably the worst person for 'Men's Health' to interview.
I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.
I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.
I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.
I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.
When I was younger, I thought maybe one day I'd be involved in sport in terms of career.
I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time.
I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
They do very classy, sexy television in the U.S. - and they pay a lot more, so there's always that draw!
I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.
