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" My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't do glamorous things. "

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" 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. "

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

" I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over. "

" There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy. "

" I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly. "

" Sport is not my thing. "

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" 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 really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still. "

" I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing. "

" The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice. "

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

" 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. "

" The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged. "

" My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. "

" People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment. "

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

" I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it. "

" There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. "

" I got the 'I don't want the normal job' bug. At home, we have countless career advisors who would tell us to work in department stores and stay below the bar and not overreach our grasp. I didn't believe any of them. "

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

" 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'm a bit of a technophobe. "

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" 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 find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP. "

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