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

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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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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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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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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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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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

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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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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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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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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

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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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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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The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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