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" I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. "
David Thewlis
Acting
Course
London
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" I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver. "
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" You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. "
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" Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable. "
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" It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries. "
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" In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. "
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" Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines. "
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" I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant. "
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" I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy. "
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" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "
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" People sometimes say, 'Why do you choose a part?' and sometimes it's not that I chose it but that that was the one that came along. "
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" When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...' "
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" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "
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" I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family. "
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" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "
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" I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey. "
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" I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally. "
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" The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. "
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