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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

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.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

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.

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.

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.

You've got to give something back. You can't just sit there.

You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

I've served my country.

For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.