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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
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I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
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I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
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I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
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People misunderstand me.
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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
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I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
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I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
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As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.
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I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
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I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.
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I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
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I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.
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I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
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With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
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I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.
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My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
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I've always been attracted to darkness.
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I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.