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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.
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I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.
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When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.
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Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
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I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
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Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.
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If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
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History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.
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In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
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I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.
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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
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You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.
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That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.
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I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.
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If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.
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The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.
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I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
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I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.
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People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'
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When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.
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I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.