some quotes from various interviews from paulbettany.net:
On being late from on interview:
"Our little one didn't want me to go away,"He's only two and I couldn't leave him. So I got a flight at four this morning instead of last night."
On working out and jennifer:
"I think she was a bit sad about it. Because when we got married, she bought this very, very skinny, pale Englishman who drank and smoked, and now I do none of those things."
On his career:
"I'm entirely surprised by my career, I'm always convinced someone's going to say, 'Sorry, we meant Paul
Battany, not you.'"
On what jennifer saw in him:
"I think she thought I was funny... to look at,"
On fatherhood:
"Soon after he was born, I was carrying him. This car headed too fast toward the red light, and I turned my back to the car, thinking, 'I'll give you 0.2 seconds more life than me...' Suddenly I felt like the person I had always wanted to be, you know, a good human being. At the same time, I felt like I was capable of homicide, knowing that if anybody touched him I would not rest until I had destroyed them. That's really weird, to feel that much love and that much fury at the same time."
On filming Da Vinci Code:
"I think it’s part of the nature of playing a monk assassin - I imagine they’re on their own a lot of the time. So I would turn up and there would be a modest crew, and Ron and Akiva and maybe someone I was killing or something, and it felt like a really small, independent feature."
On his relationship with jennifer:
"I was a Mail Order Husband"