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

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" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "

" When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that. "

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

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

" The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight! "

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

" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "

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

" 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. "

" I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way. "

" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "

" I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. "

" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "

" I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people. "

" I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. "

" 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. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics. "

" I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there. "

" That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that. "

" We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems. "

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

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