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" Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? "
Good
Any
Kitchen
" As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter. "
Good
Learning
New Things
" Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality. "
Playing
Even
Superhero
" Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices. "
Choices
Good
Saying
" 'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film. "
Being
Much
My Life
" I always approach film as a fan. "
Fan
Always
Approach
" I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy. "
Television
Back
London
" I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop! "
Moment
Want
Stop
" I don't think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me. "
Hair
Think
Beneficial
" If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic. "
Habit
Good
Shame
" I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet. "
Think
Success
Office
" I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. "
Phone
Two
Pretty
" I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories. "
Like
Keep
Simple
" I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. "
Keep
Want
Trying
" I'm fairly competitive. "
Fairly
Competitive
" I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position. "
Position
Seriously
Work
" It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side? "
Dark Side
Interesting
Side
" I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. "
Out
More
Work
" Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. "
Place
Questions
Audience
" My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra. "
Acting
Enough
Say
" Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime. "
Nobody
Wants
Metallica
" People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that. "
Opportunities
People
Strange
" Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. "
People
Way
Uncomfortable
" The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. "
Alive
Had
Influence
" There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero. "
Superhero
You
Interesting
" There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting. "
Life
Answers
Wrong
" There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape. "
Stress
Information
Successful
" We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect. "
Thinking
Doing
I Am
" We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? "
Silly
Failure
Looking
" What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared. "
Myself
Interesting
Comfort Zone
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