Law: "My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."

Law: "I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general."

Law: "I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about."

Law: "My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society."

Law: "I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason."

Law: "There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

Law: "Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun."

Law: "I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing."

Law: "I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner."

Law: "I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future."

Law: "Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage."

Law: "I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more."

Law: "Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off."

Law: "I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself."

Law: "I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor."

Law: "I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things."

Law: "I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed."

Law: "When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really."

Law: "You can't spend your life apologizing."