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" Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that? "

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" I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. "

" 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. "

" I'd totally be attracted to a geek girl! "

" Vancouver's a very child friendly city, there's... no doubt about that. "

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

" I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. "

" My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent. "

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

" If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone. "

" Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society. "

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

" In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now. "

" 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. "

" 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 hate the word 'hippy.' "

" Hunger's a great spur. "

" I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote. "

" I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that. "

" 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. "

" Acting is a really insular thing. "

" I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it. "

" 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'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want. "

" The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life. "

" I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang. "

" 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. "

" My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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