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" As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair. "
Hair
Life
Line
" At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English. "
I Can
Become
Long
" Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down. "
Boots
Dress
Man
" I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me. "
Time
Me
Loved
" I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch. "
Mother
Watch
She
" I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding. "
Theatre
Want
Work
" I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much. "
Myself
Again
Life
" I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't come from here, so you can find kindred spirits very easily. It's a town of gypsies. "
People
Think
Feel
" I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did. "
Back
Year
Uncle
" I got a lot out of 'Brothers & Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on. "
Time
Think
Natural
" I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time. "
Time
Remember
Real
" I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in. "
Time
Friend
Me
" I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. "
Way
Bad
Think
" I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be. "
Fitness
Easy
Now
" I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes! "
Place
Time
Dark
" In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well. "
Head
Well
Spy
" In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window. "
Acting
Thought
Myself
" I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead. "
Say
You
Dream
" I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl. "
Think
Happy
Girl
" I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies. "
Look
Conflict
War
" I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer. "
Silly
Farmer
Last
" It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat. "
People
Think
Start
" I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. "
Life
Aged
Decade
" I've done a number of projects where people go, 'This is your breakthrough role,' so I've stopped thinking that. "
People
Go
Done
" I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling. "
Nobody
Interesting
Die
" I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting. "
Why
Acting
Crisis
" I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really. "
Along
Cool
Just
" I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red. "
Early
Time
Sea
" I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. "
Home
Social Media
Go
" Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky. "
Amazing
Cheese
Clothes
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