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"I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street."
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"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
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"I think that's the thing. I don't want to date a celebrity. I want to date a normal person. So I'm looking for a normal person."
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"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"
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"One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make."
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"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
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"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."
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"Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end."
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"I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary."
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"There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write."
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"My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now."
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"I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs."
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"Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry."
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"'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes."
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"I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good."
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"I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!"
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"Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important."
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"I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something."
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"I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am."
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"That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people."
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"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."
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