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" There's something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive. "

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" Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce. "

" I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. "

" Jimmy McGovern - I love his writing, and I'm a big fan of him and Alan Clarke. "

" 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. "

" Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material. "

" I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house. "

" Obviously I'm delighted I'm a grandfather, but I guess it takes a little while to digest. You start thinking, 'Oh, I'm half-way over the natural life span. So this is the last bit, and I'd better enjoy it.' "

" My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K. "

" At art college, I started to do music and then painting and drawing - and that would have been my ideal life, to be an artist and be paid for it, to be able to create stuff. I realized it was difficult, but I don't know if I had the application for it. "

" I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life. "

" As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with. "

" I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'Oh, he won't work,' and I thought, 'Yeah, you watch.' "

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

" If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it. "

" The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and... that's not good. "

" All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention. "

" My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad. "

" 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. "

" I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career. "

" George Martin looks like Santa Claus, but he's got a wonderfully disturbed mind. "

" I like Daniel Craig. I worked with him on 'Sharpe,' one of the very early ones, maybe the second one we did - 'Sharpe's Revenge?' A long, long time ago, and he was good in that then. "

" When I first started shooting 'Sharpe,' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. "

" I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day. "

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

" It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home. "

" A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. "

" 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. "

" Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway. "