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- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.
- Busted
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.
- Nov 07, 2020