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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

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

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

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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

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

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

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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

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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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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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Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

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

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Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

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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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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

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There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

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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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