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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."

"I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me."

"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't."

"I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child."

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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