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"When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth."
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"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."

"But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."

"Having second thoughts? Puck's voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. "I thought we put this behind us for now."Never, I said, matching his stare. "I can't ever take it back, Goodfellow. I'm still going to kill you. I swore to her I would. Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. "One day, I said softly. "One day you'll look up, and I'll be there. That's the only ending for us. Don't ever forget."

"You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devon muttered."Have you seduced her?""Not yet."West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?"

"We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements."

"Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be."
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"I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by."

"The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that."

"Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can."

"There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun."

"There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself."

"I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful."

"It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course."

"It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work."
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