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" I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant. "
David Thewlis
Children
Woman
Child
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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. "
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" I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything. "
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" 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. "
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" What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today? "
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" 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. "
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" 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...' "
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" You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines. "
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" 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. "
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" The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters. "
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You
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" 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. "
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Born
Director
" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "
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" 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. "
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" For years, I've been mistaken for Rhys Ifans. All the time. People come up and say, 'Notting Hill?' I nearly got beaten up once for not being Rhys. "
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" 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. "
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Reading
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" In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. "
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" In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.' "
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Fire
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" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "
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" I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company. "
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" As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do. "
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" I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. "
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" It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American. "
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" I don't think they should trust anything that happens in 'Fargo' at all, and I'm sure 'Fargo' fans know not to make the mistake of trusting too much. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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