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" Any friendship or relationship is about a language. "
Any
Relationship
Language
" Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first. "
Show
First
TV Show
" Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do. "
Person
You
Personal
" Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets. "
People
Character
Believe
" French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time. "
Cinema
Way
Time
" I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.' "
Having
I Am
Comedy
" I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere. "
School
King
Job
" I don't like crowds or attention. "
Like
Crowds
Attention
" I don't like dressing up, and I don't like putting on make-up or doing the red carpet. The only red carpet events I go to are if I'm supporting a friend. "
Friend
Dressing
Doing
" I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot. "
Teacher
Child
Day
" I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters. "
Always
Think
Some
" I love acting, and I have no desire to direct. "
I Love
Acting
Desire
" I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. "
Village
Feel
Love
" I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. "
Quirky
Different
Doing
" In England, I've never had to drive myself to work. I don't think the English producers trust actors to get up at five A.M. and get to the set on time. "
Drive
Work
Myself
" I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.' "
Theatre
Age
Brilliant
" I think there was a petition online to get me involved in 'Doctor Who.' I'm not a 'Doctor Who' fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic. "
Me
Involved
I Am
" I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend. "
Fly
Russia
Two
" It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it. "
Know
Fun
Always
" I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways. "
Fame
Now
Free
" I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.' "
Never
Talking
School
" I've now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven't quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, 'Did I do that right?' 'Could I have done that better?' "
Done
You
Right
" Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia. "
American
Media
Job
" My all-time favourite programme is 'Seinfeld;' I could just sit and watch that over and over again. "
Sit
Over
Watch
" My average day on 'Leverage' starts at 5 A. M. and ends 12 to 14 hours later. An hour drive to the set and back sometimes makes the day unbearably long. You have to grab a few minutes to yourself where you can. "
Day
Yourself
Back
" My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out. "
Mother
Out
Always
" Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media. "
American
New
Media
" One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week. "
American
Week
Different
" One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters. "
Relationship
You
Character
" One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync. "
Out
You
Show
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