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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

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He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

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It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

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I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!

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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

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