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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

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I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

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

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I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!

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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

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I love working in New York theater.

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In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

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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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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

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On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

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