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It's easier to act in your own accent.

I don't think I'll be doing a lot more commercials.

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

I'm not an actor who is often asked to be in period things.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough ... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.

My wife is a very strong woman.

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.

'Spoilt' is a euphemism for 'loved.'

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

My mother certainly doesn't think I'm charming!

I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

Richard Armitage is very good at the old horse riding because of course he did it in 'Robin Hood,' so he's very good at that.

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.

I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life.

Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

Tumours can come out of nowhere.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

It's easy to get carried away with yourself.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

You can get a bit world-weary in this job, and 'The Passion' reminded me of what a fantastic job acting is and how lucky I am to be doing it.

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times ... It goes to pretty dark places.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Producers get very jittery about things.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

Supporting drama for young people is close to my heart.

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.