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From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

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

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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

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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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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

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

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If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

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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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Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

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

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

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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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

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Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

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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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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 never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

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