"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

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"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

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"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."

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"I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater."

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"In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor."

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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."

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