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" I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool. "
Theo James
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" Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor. "
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" I did my share of kid acting, like lots of us do. I even played King Herod when I was 6, but when I got to the end of my school period, that was it. "
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" I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays. "
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" It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women. "
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" Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying. "
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" I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works? "
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" I'm definitely a joker. "
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" I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from. "
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" I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky. "
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" I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.' "
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" Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to. "
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" I've had some strange notes from fans and a few weird gifts. "
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" If you don't finish a day of stunts with a lot of bruises, you feel like you haven't done it right. "
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" I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures. "
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" 'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted. "
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" You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself. "
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" I'm a bit of a dude. I like meat. But I am buying it more responsibly, where it's more sourced responsibly. "
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" I watched 'The Shield.' That was a big show for me. "
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" We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self. "
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" I'm a pessimist by nature, so I don't believe something until someone has kind of punched me over the head with it. "
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" Naturally, obviously, nudity is a part of life. "
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" Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It's tempting, of course. "
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" People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London. "
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" There were times I when I'd go out and have some fun, but I wouldn't say I was a 'playa.' "
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" Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal. "
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" British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get. "
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