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" I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time. "

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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. "

" And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed. "

" It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part. "

" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "

" One can only improvise what one knows. "

" I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me. "

" In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.' "

" I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. "

" Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great. "

" The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. "

" 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. "

" It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night. "

" 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. "

" After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week. "

" I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more. "

" I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen. "

" When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to Arsenal and this fight broke out... My anecdotes are like, 'I was in this bar, and Michelle Pfeiffer rang, and I had wax in my ear, so I couldn't hear what she was saying...' "

" When you do something well, this is the best job in the world. "

" I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes. "

" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "

" I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy. "

" I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything. "

" We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it. "

" I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. "

" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "

" 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. "

" I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?' "

" 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. "