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" When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him. "

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" 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. "

" I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head. "

" You don't necessarily equate me with humor! "

" 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.' "

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

" I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy. "

" Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to do a cowboy film. I suppose I've come close to it on occasion, but not really to a classic cowboy film. "

" 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 used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff. "

" Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. "

" I worked with John Hurt a couple of times and learned a lot from him. "

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

" There's only so long you can play the silent type standing in the background. 'GoldenEye' was good for that. I was the villain: James Bond was doing all the heavy lifting. I liked that. "

" I am quite quiet: I don't feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more. "

" I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were. "

" In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily. "

" I go to see my kids in school plays. "

" I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring. "

" I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters. "

" 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. "