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" But we live in a modern world, you know, and, and also it does seem to me that if you - that whatever talents you have, it... I mean it may sound a bit absurd but I, I think it's your, absolutely your duty to resolve them, you know? "
Think
Live
You
" Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains. "
Villains
Belief
Just
" Don't dream it, be it. "
Dream
Dream It
" I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving. "
Someone
Voice
Something
" I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions. "
Directors
Like
Dangerous
" I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like. "
Audience
Parts
Risky
" I love to sing. "
I Love
Sing
Love
" I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be. "
Leading
Conventional
Man
" I moved to L.A., because that's where they point cameras at you. And that's what I'd like them to do. "
You
Because
Where
" In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package. "
Find
Most
Tie
" I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7. "
Like
Remember
Until
" I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup. "
Childhood
Way
Imagination
" I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to. "
Own
Think
Driven
" I've turned down a lot of roles to make time to record and tour. "
Tour
Down
Lot
" I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character. "
Respect
Character
Acting
" I was a huge J.M. Barrie fan as a kid, as most English children are. "
Kid
Huge
Children
" Kids will eat anything, won't they? "
Anything
Kids
Will
" Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent. "
Adolescent
Very
Mozart
" My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach. "
Own
American
More
" My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. "
Standards
Hero
Holiday
" My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible. "
Head
Different
Always
" One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. "
Me
Best
Long
" The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. "
People
Theatre
Think
" The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. "
Good
Theatre
World
" Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole. "
You
Musicians
Know
" Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop. "
War
People
America
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