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

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

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

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

" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. "

" The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency. "

" 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 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. "

" I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. "

" 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 had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver. "

" I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath. "

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

" Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it. "

" In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. "

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