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"I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards."
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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."
"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
"All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor."
"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained."
"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
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"There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want."
"I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs."
"Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it."
"You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person."
"But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture."
"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."
"I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself."
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