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Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.
If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.
I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.
'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of.
It would be a shame for me if I were to become 'Mr. Half-Hour Sitcom.'
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.
I've had several really tangible dreams about UFOs, and they've been amazing!
I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
I wanted to be an actor because I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon,' you know what I mean?
I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.
If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.
I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.
I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.
My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.
You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.
I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.
I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
We all know the films that have affected us from the age of nine onwards, that mean so much to us.
I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.
I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.
All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.