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I have to travel a lot for work.
Ancient Rome was a violent place.
Ring tones are just irritating, aren't they?
I have no problem with television as a genre.
I grew up in a very rural community in England.
I like television that grabs you by your throat.
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
The East Texas accent is a famously difficult accent to do.
If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.
Somebody doing something effortlessly is a lovely thing to watch.
I often think that drama helps people feel less lonely about things.
The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!
You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'
When I was growing up, 'Butch and Sundance' was my absolute favorite film.
You know, people aren't watching a network: they're watching cable channels.
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.
It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.
If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and that they belong.
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.
My pub was full of get-rich-quick schemes that never worked - scams, pyramid schemes. People trying to find a way to get themselves out of a rut.
You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.
Once you have kids, horror movies become too horrible to watch because you imagine your own children in those situations, so you stop watching them.
One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.
You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
Joe Carroll had a certain black comedy to him. But I think it's lovely playing a man who, in his heart and soul, is a gentle man. And he's wounded and complicated.
What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.