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" I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "

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" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "

" Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start. "

" Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. "

" I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK. "

" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "

" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "

" I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy. "

" I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. "

" I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon. "

" My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. "

" My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster. "

" I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story. "

" I've never hankered for any role. "

" The bad boys get all the best lines. "

" Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. "

" I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies. "

" I don't do social media. "

" As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. "

" When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years. "

" Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist. "

" I'm a child of the Sixties. "

" Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. "

" I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "

" Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?' "

" I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman. "

" If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?' "

" When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself. "

" When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own. "

" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "