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

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" Wood is weirdly a big passion of mine. I really love it, all the way from trees to a finished table. The fact that it was alive and that each piece is different. "

" It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here. "

" My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English. "

" I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind. "

" Becoming that guy who does one thing is not very interesting. I'm lucky and proud to have been involved in period films and action films. "

" Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight! "

" 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. "

" The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real. "

" I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! "

" 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. "

" 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've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. "

" I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent. "

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

" Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.' "

" I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me. "

" I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays. "

" You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees. "

" I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

" Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with art - people shouldn't read too much before they explore. "

" That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that. "

" I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore. "

" I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me. "

" 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. "

" If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then. "

" 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. "