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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
- Gremlin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
- Horrible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
- Containing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love working in New York theater.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
- Prizes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parts win prizes, not actors.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lot less serious than people think.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless we tell stories about ourselves, which is all that theater is, we're in deep trouble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say 'yes' to things; not like the endless 'nos' and 'hrrumphs' you get in England!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when stories are left open.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
- Genes
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- Nov 07, 2020