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To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.

When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'

What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.

The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice with Mindy Kaling on her excellent sitcom 'The Mindy Project.'

Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.

Editing is the most companionable form of education.

I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.