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" The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now. "

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" I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence. "

" My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time. "

" I'm not bad at singing - at least in the shower. "

" You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is. "

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" It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it? "

" For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes? "

" When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's. "

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" I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.' "

" I left school when I was 16; then I worked for my father, who was a welder. And I was a welder for three years, you know, welder of fabrication, metal 'cause it was a big industrial town, Sheffield. It was much steel and coal and stuff like that. "

" Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease. "

" I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up. "

" 006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters. "

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" I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping out, and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first, like a lot of teenagers. "

" You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff. "

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" I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything. "