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" I didn't know whether to join the army or go to art college. "

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" When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist. "

" Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over. "

" The older I get, the more I feel that's all we are: a big bunch of feelings and instincts all wrapped up in some brief encounter with intellect. "

" There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello - Othello! Whether you like it or not. "

" I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this. "

" I love a cinema with two people in it. Love it! Absolutely love it! "

" I'm sick of having an opinion on everything. Getting older, you learn all sorts of things you're supposed to, but I feel like it's time, when you get older, through experience, to... I started to feel quite... what's the word? ... intimidated by seeing both sides of everything. "

" Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe. "

" These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters. "

" I know I work quite hard at making people like me. "

" There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking. "

" My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall. "

" I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button. "

" In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through. "

" You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research. "

" When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed. "

" You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person. "

" My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started. "

" When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom. "

" Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time. "

" You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor. "

" I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in. "

" It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them. "

" I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. "

" If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something. "

" If I can't get hold of someone I love, I'll assume they're being tied to a radiator by al-Qaeda rather than their battery's run out. I'm quite a worrier. "

" There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well. "

" I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front. "

" If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well. "

" What character actors want to do is investigate new types of people and present them in all their idiosyncrasies, psychological complexities, and contradictory stupidities. That has been one of the great delights over our seven collaborations. "