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" 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. "

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

" A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "

" I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. "

" You don't necessarily equate me with humor! "

" I bought a Jaguar when I was 28. I'd always wanted one. I had it for years, then my friend had it, then my dad had it. It was a good workhorse. "

" I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were. "

" I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house. "

" Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn't believe in love. But marriage - that fits some people but obviously not me. "

" If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent. "

" I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters. "

" I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did. "

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

" I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career. "

" My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over. "

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

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

" 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! "

" All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention. "

" I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. "

" I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it. "

" My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time. "

" There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that. "

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

" Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually. "

" George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind. "

" Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional. "

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

" My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K. "

" 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. "