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"When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance."
Love
"I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'"
Love
"When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13."
Father
"I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion."
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"The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character."
Character
"My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it."
Business
"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
Imagination
"I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so."
Men
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