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" If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. "

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" My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much. "

" I'd love to try my hand at something else. "

" Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it. "

" We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it. "

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" People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. "

" In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. "

" My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. "

" The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role! "

" 'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar. "

" I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. "

" The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affect your demeanor. It informs the way you behave. "

" The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. "

" As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. "

" I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year. "

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" I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84. "

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