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"Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."
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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git."
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"Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens."
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"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."
Science
"I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years."
Sister
"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
Opposition
"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
Management
"No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen."
Work
"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."
Man
"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me."
Character
"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."
Work
"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."
Drama
"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."
Interest
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