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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 get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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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.
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I`ve got a cape, but not a pointy hat.
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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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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 hate auditions - when I`m doing them, I can`t wait to get out the bleeding door.
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Losing all that weight really does mess up your metabolism up. After we finished filming I put on a stone in less than a week. That`s not normal.
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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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I`ve only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there`s bound to be a conflict.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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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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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I`m belligerent rather than ambitious.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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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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You learn more doing than doing training.
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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 was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
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I`m not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Well, put it like this, if you`re not a kid, you`re a wizard.
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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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That`s what I like about Neil Jordan`s films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Trivia
Twice portrayed John Lennon on film, in The Hours and Times (1991) and Backbeat (1994).
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Has twice played a lackey of Ralph Fiennes. In The End of the Affair (1999), he plays a private detective hired by Fiennes's character to spy on Julianne Moore. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), he allows his body to be used as a host for the spirit of Lord Voldemort - who is played in the flesh by Fiennes, beginning with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
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His birth name was Ian Davies but he adopted the surname "Hart" from his Everyman Theatre School friend Barbara Hart.
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Has two daughters: Daisy, born in 1996 and Holly, born in 2001.
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Not only did he play Professor Quirrell, but he also provided the facial structure for the CG head of Lord Voldemort at the end of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). The role was later re-cast with Ralph Fiennes, beginning with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
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Wife is a teacher, they have one daughter.
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Has played both Arthur Conan Doyle (in Finding Neverland (2004)) and one of his most famous characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dr. Watson (The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) (TV) and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) (TV)).
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Resides in Crouch End, London, England. [2004]
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