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"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy."
"It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier."
"Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it."
"If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart."
"The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears."
"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying."
"It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous."
"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."
"I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly."
"When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing."
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