"I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country."

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"I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."

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"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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"If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is."

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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."

Shakespeare

"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it."

Time

"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."

Money

"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"

Woman

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are."

Mother

"We all need a firm sense of identity."

Identity

"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can."

Actor

"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility."

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"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."

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"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."

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