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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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Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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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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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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I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.
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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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I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.
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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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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 love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
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People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'
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I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.
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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.
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I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
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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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If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.
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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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Robert Kirkman can't bear it when I wear flip-flops. He takes pictures of my flip-flops and keeps sending them to me, like, 'What are you doing? Rick Grimes is not a flip-flop kind of guy.'
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Having children was a revelation - it's like going through a doorway, and everything is different forever.
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I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
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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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There's a whole generation in England who think I'm American, thanks to 'The Walking Dead.' It's an interesting phenomenon of being an actor longer than 25 years because you can tell what people know you from.
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Even though I'm an actor, I'm a very bad liar.