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"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
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"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
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"I am an actor through and through."
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"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."
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"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
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"Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be."
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"An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."
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"I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic."
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"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."
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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
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"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."
Mother
"We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby."
Time
"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play."
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"I've never been onstage in my life."
Life
"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."
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"For me personally, everything is on a kiss."
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"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."
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"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist."
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"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."
Mother
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