"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

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"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."

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"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

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"Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write."

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"When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right."

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"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

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"I'm the audience's representative on earth."

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"English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite."

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"I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed."

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