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" I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "

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" I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role. "

" I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. "

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" I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. "

" I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America. "

" I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. "

" I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. "

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" To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. "

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" My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. "

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" I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special. "

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" I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84. "

" It's a film called 'Kursk', which is a true story about a submarine disaster. There was an accident on board a Russian submarine in the year 2000, and it stranded a large number of sailors. That's next. "

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