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

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" 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 love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world. "

" The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.' "

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

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

" It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this. "

" When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation. "

" I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me. "

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

" 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 never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time. "

" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "

" 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? "

" I'd love to play some kind of fop. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. "

" To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone. "

" A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you. "

" My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. "

" Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film. "

" 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 owe my father everything. "

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

" 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. "