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" When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent. "

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" As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair. "

" I got a lot out of 'Brothers & Sisters' and learnt some incredible things and I think it certainly had come to a natural ending, so it was definitely time to move on. "

" Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky. "

" I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be. "

" I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did. "

" In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window. "

" I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer. "

" I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really. "

" I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead. "

" At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English. "

" I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes! "

" We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh. "

" I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red. "

" I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. "

" I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. "

" I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling. "

" I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting. "

" I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much. "

" I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch. "

" Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down. "

" I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies. "

" I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time. "

" Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas. "

" There's such a unique humour in Wales that I just love and miss in Los Angeles. "

" I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding. "

" It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat. "

" I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life. "