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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
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"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
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"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."
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"I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level."
"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
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