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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

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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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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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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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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

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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 love working in New York theater.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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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 don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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