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Tequila is my salmon.
Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
The fear of messing up is what makes you work harder!
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
I'm as voyeuristic and intrigued as the next person as to how celebrities live.
As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.
I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
I always think of comedy as being spontaneous, and yet everything about filmmaking is not spontaneous.
A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.
If you've loved something and then in some ways you become a part of it, you just don't want to be the one that screws it up!
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.
Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.
I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon.
My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.
If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?
I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.
I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.