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My relationship with my belief has never been easy.
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Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
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I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
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It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.
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We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.
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We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
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When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.
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Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
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You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
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In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.
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My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
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I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.
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It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.
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If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
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If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.
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I was probably cool around the end of 2002.
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I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.
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You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
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Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
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I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
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My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
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I like talky scenes.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.