"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"

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"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"

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"The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot."

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"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."

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"Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games."

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