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"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
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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."
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
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"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good."
"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."
"I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period."
"Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre."
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
"I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?"
"I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema."
"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."
"I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater."
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