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"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."

"I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead."

"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."

"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."

"Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions."

"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."

"I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing."
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"In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve."

"I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script."

"Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out."

"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."

"You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do."

"What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king."

"With the situation now, people might be intrigued to see how a country coped with war all those years ago."

"You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things."
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