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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.
I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.
I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.
Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.
As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
Film taught me an enormous amount about the internal life a performance has to have, and that life has to be real. You can fake it on stage, but not for the camera.
For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.
Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.