I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago,...
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I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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On moving to L.A.: I went to film a TV series (Luck with Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina and Nick Nolt...
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On moving to L.A.: I went to film a TV series (Luck with Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina and Nick Nolte) for HBO. Three months turned into nine months. Nine months turned into a year, then 18 months and so on and so on. One part led on to another. My wife and kids were never seeing me, so they moved over, too. Now they are in school over here and we've got a house in Santa Monica.
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so ...
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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't g...
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good w...
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I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu....
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
I play the town taxidermist. Norman starts coming over to see my character's daughter, but he become...
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I play the town taxidermist. Norman starts coming over to see my character's daughter, but he becomes fascinated by preserving dead animals. In one episode his dog dies, so I teach him how to preserve it. He becomes obsessed with taxidermy.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back,...
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I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.
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I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
It's one of those things where you turn round and say 'I've moved to LA by accident. It was a happy ...
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It's one of those things where you turn round and say 'I've moved to LA by accident. It was a happy accident, though. Santa Monica isn't bad - I can get Heinz beans and Cadbury's chocolate and PG Tips tea. You can get proper brown sauce in the shop round the corner. It's not like America and it doesn't feel too showbiz. I did see Warren Beatty the other day doing his shopping. I was thinking 'he's getting on a bit' but then I realized that he had more hair than me - and he's in his 70s.
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You learn more doing than doing training.
You learn more doing than doing training.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there...
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Everyone should be good at what they do.
Everyone should be good at what they do.
I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, th...
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made m...
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
I just want to be rich and famous.
