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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The review I've been most offended by came when I played Hamlet. I'd always prided myself on being an 'invisible actor' and not getting in the way of the play. But this review didn't mention me once. That's worse than being insulted.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
- Telly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't watched telly for years.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
- Good Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020