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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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

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

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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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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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

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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

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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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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

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

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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

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I love working in New York theater.

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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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