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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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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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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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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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I love working in New York theater.

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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

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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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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think.

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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

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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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