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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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

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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

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

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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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I love working in New York theater.

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

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Parts win prizes, not actors.

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

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

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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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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

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In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

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