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"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."
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"As a character I am dead, as a writer I am not."
"You don't need notes... you either do it ... or you either you don't do it."
"This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good."
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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 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."
"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?"
"When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training."
"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."
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