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" I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet. "
Toby Stephens
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" I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh! "
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" I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can't access my e-mails. "
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" Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know. "
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" The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea. "
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" Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that. "
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" On the whole, I don't watch television. "
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" Since I've had kids, I thank God that I don't drink, as I really wouldn't have been able to cope. "
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" That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them. "
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Parents
Bad
" I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling. "
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Sea
" I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything. "
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Think
You
Play
" I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there. "
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Love
America
Crazy
" I grew up in the States and Canada for a while because my mum came over in the 1970s. We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and then moved to Canada for a few more. "
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Over
Canada
Lived
" Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone. "
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Children
You
Easy
" I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood. "
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American
Space
Lost
" Whenever I'm doing stage, I want to be doing screen, and vice versa. "
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Vice
Want
Doing
" I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional. "
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Emotional
Me
Cry
" If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck. "
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Musicians
Feel
Helpless
" I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking. "
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Great
Walking
Place
" I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented. "
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Really
Kind
Want
" Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself. "
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School
Yourself
Fool
" As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination. "
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Only
Instinct
Imagination
" I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are. "
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World
My Life
Life
" Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job. "
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Growing
Different
Me
" I remember my parents being really on me about speaking in a certain way when I was young, I think because they came from a class that aspired to talk like that. "
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Way
Me
Parents
" I have a huge acting crush on Gene Hackman. I just love watching him. "
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Crush
Acting
Love
" When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another. "
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Got
Spirit
She
" Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free. "
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You
Great
Moments
" My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded. "
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Way
Doing
Parents
" Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do. "
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Edge
Places
Theatre