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" When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years. "

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" What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle. "

" I'm a child of the Sixties. "

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" My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.' "

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" My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster. "

" I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK. "

" I've never hankered for any role. "

" If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?' "

" I enjoy every role I do. "

" Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start. "

" Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist. "

" People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive. "

" Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually. "

" As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting. "

" There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones. "

" If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made. "

" I don't do social media. "

" You don't know where life takes you. "

" My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. "

" I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along. "

" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "

" When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own. "

" I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down. "

" Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down. "

" Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. "

" You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change. "

" I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million! "

" You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife? "

" The bad boys get all the best lines. "