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" Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. "
Some
Themselves
Artists
" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "
Just
Work
Visionary
" Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape. "
Escape
Fact
Me
" Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life. "
Life
Everything
Will
" Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it. "
Obligation
Feel
Caught
" He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really. "
Always
Said
Cartoons
" He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. "
Great
Find
Thought
" He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. "
Spent
Curious
He
" I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor. "
Wanted
Writer
Actor
" I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own. "
Feel
Sometimes
Short
" I'd like to direct more operas. "
Direct
Operas
More
" I don't have any big regrets. "
Big
Any
Regrets
" I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. "
Human
Up
Situation
" I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books. "
Him
Kind
Life
" I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. "
London
Down
Growing
" I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance. "
Change
Love
Performance
" Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling. "
Acting
Thinking
Think
" I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting. "
Great
Conclusion
Actor
" I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor. "
Months
University
Queen
" I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that. "
I Am
You
Think
" Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story? "
Jesus
Absolutely
Him
" Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me. "
Like
Jesus
Impression
" Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged. "
I Am
Actor
Me
" My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. "
Teacher
Vision
Mother
" Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. "
Man
Social
Human Heart
" Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.' "
Dementia
King
About
" The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state. "
Blood
Someone
Responsibility
" There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you. "
Born
Fact
I Am
" To live another person's life is quite a weird thing. "
Thing
Life
Person
" Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening. "
Very
Stage
Saturday
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