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" I'm a terrible dancer. "

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" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

" I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world. "

" Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you. "

" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

" I find it easier to approach things from a critical angle that otherwise may seem daunting because I'm used to being scared. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

" I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates in them rather than feeling bored and wishing he would just go away. "

" I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart. "

" This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different. "

" Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely. "

" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "

" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "

" We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems. "

" I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way. "

" What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing! "

" I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that. "

" All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, certain films or pieces of music or books have changed that. They've taken me out of a dark place and put me into a more positive one. And I think that if we can do that for people, then it's certainly worth doing. "

" I've never got on with recipes. Free yourself - throw them out! "

" It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan. "

" I'm a bit of a technophobe. "

" I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday. "

" I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism. "

" I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people. "

" I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. "

" I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. "

" I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz. "

" I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people. "

" I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time. "

" One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control. "

" The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing. "