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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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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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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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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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

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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

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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 knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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

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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 a lot less serious than people think.

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

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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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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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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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