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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 mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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

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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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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

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

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A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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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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