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" If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique. "
Eddie Redmayne
Unique
Where
Oneself
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" On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters. "
Eddie Redmayne
Work
Want
See
" I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again. "
Eddie Redmayne
Day
Holiday
Love
" In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it. "
Eddie Redmayne
Love
People
Hate
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
Had
Living
New
" The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again. "
Eddie Redmayne
Working
Again
Disease
" Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. "
Eddie Redmayne
Character
Book
Work
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
NASA
I Am
History
" 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour. "
Eddie Redmayne
Children
Years
Animal
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
Earth
Big
Years
" It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. "
Eddie Redmayne
People
Used
School
" A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true. "
Eddie Redmayne
Camera
People
Theatre
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
Possible
Someone
Understand
" What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it. "
Eddie Redmayne
Eye
Camera
You
" There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion. "
Eddie Redmayne
Fashion
Relationship
World
" The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed. "
Eddie Redmayne
Doctor
Problem
People
" I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. "
Eddie Redmayne
Respect
Month
New
" I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'. "
Eddie Redmayne
Physics
Home
Know
" I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings. "
Eddie Redmayne
You
Blur
Character
" I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. "
Eddie Redmayne
Fashion
Knowledge
World
" As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that. "
Eddie Redmayne
Want
You
Bubble
" 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? "
Eddie Redmayne
Lead
More
Much
" That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends. "
Eddie Redmayne
Family
I Am
My Life
" There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?' "
Eddie Redmayne
Camera
Always
Acting
" A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage. "
Eddie Redmayne
Someone
Star
Trying
" I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again. "
Eddie Redmayne
Think
You
Learning
" I'll always find the things that make a role complicated! "
Eddie Redmayne
Role
Always
Complicated
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
Stars
Me
Without
" I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop. "
Eddie Redmayne
Me
Myself
People
" 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. "
Eddie Redmayne
Interesting
Line
Dream
" I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess. "
Eddie Redmayne
Possible
Being
Never