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It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

Sometimes people know I am an actor but are not really sure what I have been in.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'