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"I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person."
"A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello."
"Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do."
"I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen."
"I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery."
"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?"
"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."
"There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."
"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman."
"If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in."
"Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy."
"Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary."
"When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this."
"There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring."
"The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned."
"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
"Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me."
"I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing."
"The better the writing, the easier it gets."
"I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed."