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" Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world. "
Children
Cruelty
I Can
" Everything contains its antithesis. "
Antithesis
Contains
Everything
" I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' "
Think
Moment
Alive
" I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. "
You
Worth
Rich
" If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso. "
Work
Wall
Van
" I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. "
World
Roots
New
" I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look. "
Never
Look
Clothes
" I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. "
Know
You
Relationship
" I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. "
Hope
Travel
Time
" I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent. "
Talent
Either
Perfection
" I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change. "
Change
Never
Life
" In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be. "
Theatre
Own
Place
" In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half. "
High
House
Three
" I often don't feel like the person I look like. "
Person
Feel
Like
" I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short. "
Process
Short
I Am
" I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. "
Sometimes
Torture
Theatre
" It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man. "
Down
You
Man
" I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. "
Experiences
People
Through
" I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. "
Actor
Like
Talent
" Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life? "
Job
Think
Good
" There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story. "
Age
Look
Story
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