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- Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
- I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You…
- Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that…
- Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the…
- People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get…
- There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
- You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
- What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
- I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't…
- The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you,…
- I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself…
- You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
- I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the…
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