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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

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If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

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I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

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

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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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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

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I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

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My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

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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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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

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I love working in New York theater.

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I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

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