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" How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. "

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" I tend to read non-fiction. "

" I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. "

" You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying. "

" I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch. "

" It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. "

" You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. "

" I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me. "

" People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk. "

" I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. "

" My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea. "

" I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself. "

" Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell. "

" There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened. "

" Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. "

" Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money. "

" What other people think of me is none of my business. "

" And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip. "

" I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out. "

" If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. "

" Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. "

Not Good Enough

" I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. "

" I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. "

" As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. "

" The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient. "

" I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. "

" I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line. "

" I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy. "

" That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. "

" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "