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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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" I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist. "

" I don't do glamorous things. "

" 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. "

" I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids. "

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

" I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it. "

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

" Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. "

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" Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. "

" I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics. "

" Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed. "

" The Blue Ridge Mountains are an incredible place. "

" If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. "

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

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

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

" 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'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art. "

" One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control. "

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