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All you're doing is pretending you're suffering. You're not really suffering. You can go home any time you like.
Everyone seems to think Daniel Day-Lewis invented acting just because he stays in character for a while.
Harry Potter made absolutely zero difference. I never got a job off the back of it.
I can't stand that business of having to ring a little bell and checking your name on the list. Just so you can sit around with a bunch of actors. Some of them are interesting and some are dead boring. As for the ones who are famous for coming out of restaurants, how is that an achievement?
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.
I grew up in a strong Catholic community where the priest would come to the house. I was beaten by the nuns at school.
I grew up in a strong Catholic community where the priest would come to the house. I was beaten by the nuns at school.
I hate me. I always see the mistakes I made. Just because someone else didn't notice it, it doesn't mean that it isn't there.
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.
I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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.
I've got a cape, but not a pointy hat.
I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
If I'd have gone out every night of the week from Backbeat onwards, and had my picture taken with pretty girls, I'd be much more famous by now. What do we assess fame by-going out with one of the Appletons?
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.
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.
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.
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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.
What I don't like is having to be on set and working your bollocks off and some bloody production assistant hasn't got the bag of crisps you need.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
When you're hungry and cold you get snappy, you get pissed off-everyone does.
You learn more doing than doing training.
I've predominately become, for whatever reason, a character actor. When I get the call. I try different things, but I try to do them all from the same basic standpoint of being real.
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