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" Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor. "

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Doing The Right Thing

" I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. "

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" When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. "

" I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place. "

" I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red. "

" I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away. "

" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "

" A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. "

" With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. "

" It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. "

" I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. "

" I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. "

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