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

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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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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

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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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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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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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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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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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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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I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

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I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

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

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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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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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