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" Acting is a general thing; it's not like being a primary artist like a painter or writer which stands the test of time. I don't think acting stands the test of time, but it can capture the mood of the moment, which is in itself very exciting, but it rarely lasts. "
Think
Time
Test
" Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds. "
Summer
Clouds
Identity
" Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they? "
Just
Professionally
Lovely
" Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed. "
Think
Thought
Theatre
" Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school. "
Arts
Go
Say
" Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut. "
Artist
Feel
You
" For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful. "
Find
Complacency
Faith
" Funnily enough, I never thought of myself as being short. Being an actor has made me much more conscious of it than I would have been otherwise. "
Short
More
Enough
" I am single. Acting can make it hard to have profound relationships if you're not careful. You get into this pattern of three-month, four-month jobs and 'what's the next adventure.' "
Adventure
Hard
I Am
" I don't have any children. And I've often found other people's a bit annoying. "
Other
Children
People
" I'll have you know that as a young man, I spent an entire year as a woman in a world tour of 'As You Like It.' I played Celia. "
Young Man
You
World
" I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity. "
Me
Meet
Famous
" I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me. "
Kind
Person
Me
" In a thriving culture, you celebrate your achievements. In an exhausted one, you proclaim your disadvantages. "
You
Your
Culture
" In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days. "
Life
God
Good
" I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish. "
Just
Case
Acting
" I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me. "
Laugh
People
Comedy
" I was one of the first actors in London to be seen for Frodo ten years ago. I didn't get it, obviously. The right size, but too handsome, apparently. "
Years
London
Handsome
" My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism. "
Family
Catholicism
Jewish
" My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really. "
Aspire
Parents
Lovely
" My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz. "
Parents
Security
Us
" My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again. "
Head
Voice
Think
" New York is still the most glamorous city I've ever been to, but it's starting to feel older. The sirens still wail; the paths in Central Park still pulsate with joggers. The Manhattan schist still trembles beneath your feet. But weirdly, it's starting to feel, dare I say it, a bit quaint. "
City
Feet
New York
" Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare. "
Process
Creative
You
" Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first. "
Egg
First
Like
" People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough. "
Stars
Good
People
" People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they're going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can't get off their backside. "
Nonsense
Saying
Go
" Show business is not conducive to mental stability. It's a constant rollercoaster of adrenaline spikes and devastating let-downs. There's something about seeing a face from the telly in real life that makes people deranged. "
Life
Face
Business
" Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people. "
Seem
Little
Pathetic
" Stories about vicars are always being told because they're at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity. "
Always
Life
Heart
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