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" My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me. "

" It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. "

" I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment. "

" I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience. "

" There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle, so they don't think of black or brown people as husbands, best friends, bosses. "

" I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new. "

" Words can be an act of reductionism. "

" Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with. "

" The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me. "

" I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater. "

" I'm not averse to a bit of travel. "

" There's been such a pushback against political correctness, and I think that's due to the discomfort people feel talking about other people's issues that they don't fully understand. "

" My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist. "

" I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting. "

" My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. "

" We have flaws, things go wrong, people's hearts get broken, people make mistakes, people fall in love with other people. And that's hard, but that's also part of life. "

" Love is a hard thing to turn your back on. "

" It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.' "

" I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him. "

" I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character. "

" As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view. "

" I really want to do Broadway. "

" I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label. "

" 'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch. "

" I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved. "

" We moved back to Britain for my secondary education. "

" As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too. "

" I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have. "

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