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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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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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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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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'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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

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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 think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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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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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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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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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 idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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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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