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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

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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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If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

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You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

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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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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

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

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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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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think.

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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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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

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I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

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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 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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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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I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

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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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