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" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "

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" Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film. "

" The U.K. and the U.S. are very different countries, and it really shows in the television. "

" To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone. "

" Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. "

" There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation. "

" I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. "

" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "

" The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' "

" I never go anywhere without my iPod. "

" I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there. "

" Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. "

" The darker the character, the more interesting. "

" I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. "

" A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets. "

" I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. "

" I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!' "

" We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me. "

" Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four. "

" Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it. "

" I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. "

" It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. "

" I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. "

" The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said. "

" To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate. "

" I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. "

" Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera. "

" I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing. "

" Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor. "

" I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. "

" In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. "