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

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

" Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted. "

" Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays. "

" I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45. "

" I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy. "

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

" What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems. "

" What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work. "

" I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon. "

" I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story. "

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

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

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

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

" 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've never hankered for any role. "

" Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for. "

" I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Acting's boring. "

" I don't do social media. "

" I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. "