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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

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I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.

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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.

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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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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

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I'm not a fan of Twitter.

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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.

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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

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I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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

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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

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

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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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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

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