Jack O'Connell

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.