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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

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I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day

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All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

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What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

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My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.

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I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.

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We both said we were sick of seeing movies where the fights are clean and tidy, so we made it messy, ... a welt on my forehead that made me look like the Elephant Man for a couple of days.

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And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

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I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

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They've been speaking about (a sequel) from the first time they opened their mouths.

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But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out.

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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

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I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

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I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

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An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

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I have a fear of being boring.

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But after having done American Psycho and Shaft, I found it a breath of fresh air to play somebody who's completely human in terms of his emotions.

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Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

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I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.

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I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

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It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

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