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It's definitely always daunting to have your name on a show and a lot of pressure in some ways, but obviously in other ways it's a lot of fun and it's a great honor.

I don't want to put any pressure on myself. I just do what I do and have fun.

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.

Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I would want to make sure that we support equality.

One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

When you're a business man, you have a lot of businesses, a lot of times they think you're laundering money or you're pretending you're writing things off that you don't.

My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.