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" For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky. "

Eddie Redmayne

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" As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think. "

" I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again. "

" I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive. "

" What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream. "

" I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala. "

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" There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion. "

" The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again. "

" Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug. "

" I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain. "

" Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes. "

" If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything. "

" The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one. "

" For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free. "

" I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that. "

" On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters. "

" Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.' "

" Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. "

" Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people. "

" There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything. "

" I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes. "

" Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed. "

" My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'. "

" There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again. "

" As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. "

" Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything. "

" I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'. "

" As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that. "

" I'll always find the things that make a role complicated! "