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Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

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Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.

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It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.

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Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

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It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

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Be who you like as long as you mean it.

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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

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