Brian Cox

I feel very sympathetic towards Americans and where they're finding themselves at this time.

And in many ways it's a very exciting time, but it's also in many ways an acutely depressing time.

And I find that I go more to the depressing side than the exciting side.

And I just find it extraordinary because I love this kind... When I was a kid, you know, when I was 15, and I so wanted to be an actor, but I realized I wanted to be an American actor.

Because I never wanted to be Kenneth Moore or Dirk Bogart or any of those English actors.

That just had nothing... Who were they?

No connection.

Oh, God almighty.

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You're being pernicious, Jason.

Absolutely pernicious.

And also the history of cinema.

I mean, cinema is an American invention.

You know, you can't deny it.

And because my great passion is, in fact, my wife is so pissed off at me because I spend my days, I've been working really hard.

I've done four plays.

I played Bach.

I've done a play about the financial crisis of 2008, which I played Adam Smith, you know, the history of, do you know who Adam Smith was?

No, probably not because of your education.

Oh, yeah.