- No Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
- Dying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very unmotivated at school.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to travel a lot for work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
- Ancient Rome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very rural community in England.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in the middle of him... And then you stick an accent on top of that.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
- Black Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called 'The Philanthropist' for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called 'Hap and Leonard.' He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shot the first season of 'Hap and Leonard' towards the end of the summer in Louisiana, in and around Baton Rouge. If anyone's been to Louisiana or comes from Louisiana, they know what the weather's like down there at that time of year: it's unbearably hot for an Englishman.
- Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as an actor, I would find it a little run-of-the-mill doing procedurals where it's the same sort of thing week in and week out. Your character doesn't get to grow very much, which, purely from an actor's point of view, you want to see an arc of your character.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough to do an HBO show, 'Rome,' in which my arc was built in by historical fact, and over the course of 22 episodes, we were able to tell the stories of these people. We had a beginning and middle and end, and as we went on, you changed every week.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
- Serial
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- Nov 07, 2020