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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

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

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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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

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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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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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

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Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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

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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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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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