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Parts win prizes, not actors.
I love working in New York theater.
I like it when stories are left open.
Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
I'm a lot less serious than people think.
If you judge the character, you cant play it.
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.
I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.