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" I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. "

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" I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "

" If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?' "

" When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own. "

" Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. "

" I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon. "

" I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy. "

" The bad boys get all the best lines. "

" I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story. "

" Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. "

" The bad boy: always more fun. "

" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "

" Acting's boring. "

" When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself. "

" I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies. "

" When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years. "

" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "

" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "

" As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. "

" Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start. "

" I don't do social media. "

" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "

" I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman. "

" Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. "

" I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. "

" My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. "

" I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK. "

" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "

" Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist. "

" I've never hankered for any role. "

" I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "