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" 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. "

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" I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite. "

" 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. "

" I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. "

" I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. "

" I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it. "

" I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know. "

" '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. "

" I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands' and phoned me up and said: 'What was that all about? He had scissors on his hands.' Good question. I think she should review films on Channel 4. "

" The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it. "

" I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes. "

" I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. "

" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "

" 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. "

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

" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.' "

" Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience. "

" I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date. "