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" '1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related. "
America
Day
Theatre
" As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. "
You
Character
Right
" As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.' "
Parents
Acting
Children
" Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film. "
Very
Cinema
Fan
" Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out. "
Way
Extraordinary
Out
" I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different. "
Two
Stage
Think
" I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl. "
Never
Far
Girl
" I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up. "
Idea
Any
Grew
" I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it. "
Acting
Concept
About
" I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously. "
You
Way
Just
" I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy. "
Superhero
Movie
Just
" If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy. "
Guy
Director
Film
" I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected. "
Loved
Good
Decisions
" If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts. "
Parent
My Own
Own
" I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it's meant to be acted. "
Meant To Be
You
Rules
" If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff. "
Through
You
Tough
" I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it. "
Understanding
Said
Early
" I like to cook and go to Whole Foods. "
Cook
Go
Like
" I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer. "
Deal
Summer
New
" I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors. "
Directors
People
Rather
" I'm not afraid of not working. "
Afraid
Working
" I'm not a very good actor. "
Good Actor
Actor
Very
" In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play. "
Sit
Down
Play
" I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not. "
Every
Because
Right
" I spend the majority of my life not acting. "
Life
Acting
Spend
" It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. "
People
Idea
Dangerous
" It's not often talked about what a wonderful feeling it is to see someone that you care about love and be loved. "
Loved
You
Care
" I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out. "
Out
Work
Obsessed
" I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight. "
Child
Three
Just
" I write constantly about everything. "
I Write
Everything
About
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