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" I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in. "

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" I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do. "

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" I'm 'of the world'. "

" To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. "

" I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either. "

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" I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider. "

" It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water. "

" Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. "

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" As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting. "

" I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances. "

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" I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too. "

" I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic. "

" Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that. "

" I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. "

" I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality. "

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" If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. "

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" I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character. "