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" Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries. "
Three
Great
Jet
" I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. "
Son
Great
Think
" If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row. "
End
Think
You
" I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes. "
Just
Playing
People
" I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. "
Doing The Right Thing
Life
Live
" I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. "
More
Less
Antisocial
" I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to. "
Weird
Living
America
" I'm not very good at strategizing. "
Good
Very
" I'm one of those pesky Brits. "
Those
Brits
" In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!' "
Witches
Hair
Young
" I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. "
Suspense
Think
Like
" I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough. "
You
Actor
Interesting
" It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. "
Good
You
Dinner
" It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do. "
Wrong Thing
Wrong
Right
" I've always been a narcissist. "
Narcissist
Been
Always
" I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. "
Played
Myself
Hamlet
" I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. "
Loss
Mother
My Life
" I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. "
Successful
Talent
School
" L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. "
Still
Along
Guilty
" Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. "
Yourself
Words
People
" Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. "
Enough
People
Seeing
" There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time. "
Think
Time
Age
" You have to go where the good writing is. "
Go
Writing
Good Writing
" You just have to take control of your own performance. "
You
Own
Performance
" You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. "
You
I Am
Know
" You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. "
Know
Sleep
Day
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