"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."

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"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."

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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

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"We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that."

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"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

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"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."

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"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

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"Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings."

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"In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on."

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"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

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"Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional."

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"When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work."

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"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."

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"Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes."

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