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" Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood? "
Go
Hollywood
You
" 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. "
Alone
Long
Week
" I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some. "
Books
Me
Telling
" I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. "
National
Get
Youth
" 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. "
Myself
Doing
Silly
" I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor. "
Feel
Character
Actor
" 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. "
Example
Old
Play
" I just loved the whole idea of being an actor. "
Being
Just
Actor
" I love books. "
Books
Love
I Love
" I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three. "
Three
Doing
Feel
" 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. "
Power
Good
Eye
" 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. "
People
Work
Think
" 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. "
Time
Feel
Off
" 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. "
Hate
Anonymity
Now
" It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. "
Odd
Must
Anonymity
" I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone. "
Comfort Zone
Play
Yourself
" It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself. "
Able
Yourself
Skill
" 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. "
You
Feel
Doing
" 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
Birthday
Child
" I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me. "
Think
Play
Hate
" 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. "
Want
Too Much
Doing
" My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely. "
Vanity
Lovely
Being
" Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath. "
Find
People
Because
" 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. "
Bad
Character
Good
" People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it. "
Ghosts
People
Play
" Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that. "
British
Understand
Some
" The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair. "
Like
Hair
Me
" 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. "
Know
Yourself
Interesting
" There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier. "
Character
Actor
Always
" The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' "
Yourself
Work
Think
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