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"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
"A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not."
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary."
"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it."
"At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space."
"I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there."
"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
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