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" The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest. "

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" When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job. "

" I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not. "

" Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar. "

" When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up. "

" Atlanta is an incredibly cool city. "

" I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love. "

" People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.' "

" I spend my working life pretending to be someone else. "

" I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character. "

" In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces. "

" I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path. "

" I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say. "

" Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me. "

" I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line. "

" Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever. "

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" When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way. "

" If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony. "

" I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable. "

" I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set. "

" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "

" I just do my day job and go home and plant trees. "

" My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that. "

" That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces. "

" I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time. "