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" I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. "

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" I love travelling. I love cultures. "

" I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge. "

" What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes. "

" You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless. "

" There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. "

" From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. "

" There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail. "

" I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff. "

" I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. "

" I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. "

" Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on. "

" I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay. "

" It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result. "

" I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't. "

" I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work. "

" But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello? "

" When you wake up, and you see that America has pulled out of the climate deal in Paris, that sends huge messages about putting coal before the planet. "

" I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for. "

" The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have. "

" I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership. "

" If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm. "

" I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love. "

" I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. "

" What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening. "