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" I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change. "
Rufus Sewell
Think
Me
I Can
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" I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights. "
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" I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise. "
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" I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out. "
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" I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do. "
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" I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while. "
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" People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. "
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" It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship. "
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" Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome. "
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" I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. "
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