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" I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. "
David Thewlis
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" I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art. "
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" I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know. "
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" The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that. "
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" The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. "
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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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" 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 you do something well, this is the best job in the world. "
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" That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing. "
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" Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath. "
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" Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. "
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" I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery. "
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" It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. "
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" 'Naked' propelled me into a whole other league. America started calling. I went over to Los Angeles and met all those people, and I started doing a few American films of various levels of quality. "
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Me
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" I love being a dad. "
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I Love
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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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" 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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" A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women. "
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City
Financial
" 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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Time
Long Time
Long
" 'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that. "
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" I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing. "
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Sound
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" Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous. "
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" The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency. "
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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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" I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. 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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" Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance. "
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Me
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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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" 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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" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "
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People
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" What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm not turning into a werewolf. It's a silly thing to do, isn't it? It's what you do in the playground when you're kids - but actors just never stop doing it. "
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" I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite. "
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