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" I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor. "
Jamie Sives
Time
America
Actor
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" I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it. "
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" I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom. "
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" I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it. "
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" I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me. "
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" I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream. "
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" To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for. "
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" I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it. "
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