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" It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am. "

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" My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective. "

" As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity. "

" I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release. "

" The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse. "

" I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that. "

" I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do. "

" I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you. "

" 'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous. "

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" I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. "

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" I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am. "

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