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" I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP. "

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" I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice. "

" My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything. "

" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "

" I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday. "

" I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it. "

" I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving. "

" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

" I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over. "

" I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. "

" I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing. "

" My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English. "

" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "

" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "

" I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist. "

" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "

" I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people. "

" This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different. "

" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "

" I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays. "

" I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules. "

" I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row. "

" I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

" I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art. "

" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "

" All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing. "

" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

" I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared. "

" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

" I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. "