"I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes."
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"I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me."
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"I love playing sport."
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"Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist."
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"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."
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"I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo."
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"Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part."
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"You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit."
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"You just have to take control of your own performance."
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"It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do."
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"I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there."
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"I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it."
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"I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet."
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"In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level."
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"I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV."
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"There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so."
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"Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting."
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"My parents were incredibly inclusive."
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"The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation."
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"It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable."
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