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" I grew up on the very human side of Christianity, so messages in the household I grew up in were about peace, love, and being understanding of everybody, which I think is quite cool. "
Tom Ellis
Cool
Love
Peace
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" In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working. "
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" The last TV show I really indulged in was 'Breaking Bad,' and I was in such a state of mourning when it ended. I've got to choose my next one carefully. "
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Bad
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" This is going to sound so boring, but I play golf in Hertfordshire at a club called Sandy Lodge just by Moor Park Tube station. It's where I unwind and don't think about anything else. "
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" A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that. "
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" I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm. "
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School
Place
Music
" I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you've split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That's quite difficult. "
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Myself
" I come from a religious family - my father is a pastor, my uncle, my sister and her husband are a pastor team. "
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Sister
" My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids. "
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Got
Kids
" For the show, it's really important that we remember that Lucifer is the Devil. It's important for Lucifer sometimes to remember that he's the Devil: to keep the notion that he is a wild animal that is seemingly being tamed but, at any moment, could snap. "
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Remember
" 'Rush' was an interesting experience for me because I loved that show, and I loved playing that part, and most people I spoke to who watched it really enjoyed it. "
Tom Ellis
Experience
Interesting
Me
" To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles. "
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Challenge
Amazing
Imagination
" I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do. "
Tom Ellis
Nothing
Reading
Say
" Lucifer likes to have fun, but we need to make sure that he's also rooted in a proper journey. For the first few episodes after a pilot, you're just trying to establish your world and the starting points for your characters. But I feel like, as the stakes went up, the 'Lucifer' veneer got less and less. "
Tom Ellis
Journey
Have Fun
Fun
" I'm in the Apple store on Regent Street far too much; I'm obsessed by whatever the latest Apple gadget is. For clothes, I love to shop in Liam Gallagher's shop Pretty Green on Carnaby Street, or Cult Clothing in Crouch End, for Original Penguin and G-Star. "
Tom Ellis
Green
Street
Apple
" Every time I get in an Uber in L.A., they're like, 'Oh, great accent. Are you from Australia?' I constantly have to repeat myself when I'm in North America because no one understands a word I'm saying. "
Tom Ellis
Myself
Time
America
" When you have hardcore fans of something like 'Miranda,' people can't see you any other way than Gary Preston, which is fair enough. "
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Way
You
Enough
" Lucifer has a sense of fun about life; he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark. "
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Humor
People
Play
" When I was eight or nine, I came to London for the day from Swindon and went to The National Gallery. I remember standing in Trafalgar Square with my best friend Tim, who was covered in pigeons because I put bird seed on his head. "
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Best
Day
Friend
" What I really wanted to do was take this character and go beneath the veneer of Lucifer. Underneath it all, there was a guy who was a hurt soul and rejected from his father. How that played upon his choices was kind of interesting, but also it's going inside a shell of someone who doesn't know what an emotion is. "
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Hurt
Soul
Character
" Oysters are the devil's food. Not a fan! "
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Devil
Oysters
Food
" The thing about Lucifer is that by the end of the first season, his world is falling apart a bit. Anyone that he could call an ally or trust, he now can't, and that leaves him in a place that he's never been before. "
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Now
Falling
World
" I've been acting for 15 years now, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about 'this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be doing.' Since I've started coming to the States, I've had a really great response. It's given me a lot of confidence to be more judicious about my own choices. "
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Great
Choices
Confidence
" It's an old joke: All evil people in movies are British. "
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British
People
Old
" The nice thing about 'Miranda' especially is that the audience that we had was school kids right through to pensioners. It seems to be a show that people watch as a family, so it was the first job I've been involved in that certainly my oldest daughter and my middle daughter are big fans of, and proud that I'm in it, which is a nice feeling. "
Tom Ellis
Daughter
Job
School
" It's always fun to play bad characters. "
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Fun
Play
Characters
" My take on 'Lucifer' was pretty much laid down by Tom Kapinos when he wrote the original pilot script for it. I remember reading it for the first time, and I was about four or five pages in, thinking this is so funny, and I know how I would want to do this if I was going to do it. "
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Thinking
Time
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" Both my daughters are both so unimpressed when they see me on television. I want them to say, 'Oh, Dad!' But I say, 'Who's that?' and they say 'Dad' with no real interest, even if I'm wearing a long wig and riding on a horse! I think I'll have to read a 'CBeebies' bedtime story instead. "
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Think
Horse
Long
" I have a transient lifestyle. America is where I come to work, but my home is London. I like being bi-continental. "
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Lifestyle
Home
America
" One of the biggest heroes and influences of mine, especially acting and working in comedy, is Steve Coogan. "
Tom Ellis
Mine
Comedy
Heroes
" My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Corpses' with James McAvoy, one of my best mates from drama school. I knew who she was, and I'd fancied her quite a bit when she played Melanie Owen in 'EastEnders.' "
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Life
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