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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

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You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

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Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

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Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

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I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

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I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom.

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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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