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"I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."

"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."

"It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work."

"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."

"Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can."

"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."

"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it."

"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."

"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."

"There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun."
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