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" In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating. "

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" I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. "

" 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. "

" If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. "

" I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way. "

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

" It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. "

" I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. "

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" I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role. "

" People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie. "

" One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor. "

" Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "

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" My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. "

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" We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one. "

" If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary. "

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