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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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