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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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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."

"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."

"I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human."
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"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."

"No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen."

"And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed."

"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."

"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."

"I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me."

"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."

"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."

"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
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