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" All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. "
Great
Behaviour
True
" As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. "
You
Actor
Prepared
" As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. "
Now
Wonder
Thieves
" But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. "
Love
Comedy
Possible
" But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. "
You
Because
Crew
" Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. "
Lot
Comedy
Doing
" I don't honestly think people know what acting is. "
Know
Think
Acting
" If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. "
Fish
Help
Work
" If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. "
Life
Best Friend
Best
" I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. "
Man
Falling In Love
Love
" I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives. "
Lose
Precious
Try
" I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. "
Strange
Touch
Child
" I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. "
Fall
You
Think
" It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. "
Voice
Me
Charity
" I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities. "
Actor
Go
Wonderful
" Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. "
Information
Changes
Career
" That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. "
Tribal
Hunger
Incarceration
" The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! "
Learn
Know
Camera
" The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. "
London
Religion
Like
" There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. "
Assurance
Regards
Never
" There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. "
Wonderful
Well
Running
" There's so much crap talked about acting. "
Crap
About
Talked
" There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word. "
Presence
True
Light
" When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him. "
Know
Play
Man
" When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. "
Acting
You
Start
" With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. "
Very
Exercise
Your
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