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" I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button. "
Timothy Spall
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She
" I've never seen a poltergeist, but I do believe there is more than what we see, that there is more than just this. "
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" As you get older and more thoughtful, you carry stuff with you. Your kids get older, you take on their sorrows, you enjoy their triumphs. Life doesn't always go to plan. "
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You
" Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad. "
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" I was always insecure about the way I looked. "
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" There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking. "
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" You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person. "
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Start
Building
Life
" I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front. "
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Go
Like
Theatre
" When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist. "
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Know
Me
Army
" I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about awards. "
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Uncomfortable
Talking
Awards
" I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in my life, but if I did win, it would be the usual things - helping out the people I love. I'd probably squander a few quid on all sorts of unnecessary crap! "
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" If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well. "
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Awards
Done
" There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well. "
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Unemployment
Going
Like
" When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed. "
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Work
Doing
Manager
" You never know what is going to happen to you in life. "
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Never
You
Going
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Together
You
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Work
People
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World
Magic
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Odd
World
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Time
Experience
Getting Older
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Nothing
Start
Old
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