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" Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. "

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" I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. "

" I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences. "

" I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date. "

" I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh. "

" That's one of the main things I've learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I've been dishonest. There's nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It's excruciatingly embarrassing. "

" I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more. "

" Trying to keep a relationship going on the phone is disastrous. "

" It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American. "

" I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there. "

" What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today? "

" You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go. "

" Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience. "

" I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. "

" I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's very much there as a theme of all the seasons of 'Fargo' as well: the predator and the prey. "

" I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that. "

" I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course. "

" I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant. "

" The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another. "

" I've never been that bothered about doing stage or television. I just love doing films. With theatre, it goes on night after night. "

" I could, of course, have written about the film world and the jealousy there and the frequent belief that others don't have talent. But, for some reason, it just struck me to write about art. "

" I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work. "

" I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it. "

" I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world. "

" I was a young actor in my 20s, going out in Soho, having a wild time. "

" Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for. "

" No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really. "

" It's not the easiest thing to have two actors in a family. "

" I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record. "

" I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. "

" You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant. "