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"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"I always try to find something I admire about every character I play."
Character
"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."
Family
"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."
Music
"I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things."
People
"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
Work
"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."
Job
"I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour."
Love
"The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent."
Religion
"I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen."
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"But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible."
Love
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