Me Quotes
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I went to University of Illinois team camp. And that was a big deal for me. I got MVP of the camp, but they offered another kid from the camp, which was fine. I laughed with the couple coaches I know who were there at the time, who were part of recruiting the other guy.
