I believe that my greatest strength is a deep-rooted, unshakeable trust to never let myself give up.

On a personal level, I don't exactly thrive on the idea of being known as the guy who goes topless - because I also took my shirt off on 'American Horror Story: Coven' - but I think in 'The Last Kingdom,' it's mainly done in the right way.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I loved Bernard Cornwell's books.

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.

I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.