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" I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life. "

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" I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. "

" I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor. "

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" For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in. "

" I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground. "

" My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. "

" I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. "

" I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change. "

" People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. "

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" I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life. "

" I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. "

" Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. "

" It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. "

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" 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous. "

" Hollywood is my domestic idyll. "

" Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome. "

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" I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. "

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" The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse. "

" I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release. "

" For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back. "