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My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.


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If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.


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In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.
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I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point.
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Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.
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Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.
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Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do.


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To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
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Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.


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Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.


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I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.


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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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My first real acting job was 'Skins' at eighteen years old, and I just kind of grew into myself in those two years; I would have done terribly if I'd have got that job at sixteen.
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Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
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I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.


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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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