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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

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If you judge the character, you cant play it.

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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

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