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" You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies. "

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" I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting. "

" We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it. "

" The world is enormously dangerous and scary. I worry very much for my daughter. I'm not sure we're in control any more, and I think the Internet is partly responsible for that. "

" I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family. "

" I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything. "

" A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women. "

" 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 think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery. "

" In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really. "

" 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. "

" I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.' "

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

" I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes. "

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

" It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night. "

" I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do. "

" I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company. "

" 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. "

" Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable. "

" The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency. "

" I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me. "

" I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes. "

" It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it? "

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

" 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. "

" 'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. "

" 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. "

" One can only improvise what one knows. "