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" I worked with John Hurt a couple of times and learned a lot from him. "

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" When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. "

" I am quite quiet: I don't feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more. "

" My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. "

" I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit. "

" I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong. "

" Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. "

" It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home. "

" I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything. "

" I think we have a perception of transvestites all being the same, as one block. It's not one mass or tribe. Everybody's got a different story. "

" Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. "

" I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "

" Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't. "

" I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff. "

" If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it. "

" I like playing guys with swords and the horses and stuff like that. "

" Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. "

" It's a good thing about George R.R. Martin: He's prepared to kill off the main guys. You don't get the feeling that the good guy is going to last forever, like James Bond. "

" 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. "

" I always get nervous before a scene. "

" When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him. "

" I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design. "

" At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it. "

" I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying. "

" I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me. "

" I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain! "

" I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film. "

" I love to be with my kid in Yorkshire. I love it there. "

" In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily. "

" There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers. "