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" If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film. "

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

" I love to work in all sorts of different situations. "

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" What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that. "

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" The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it. "

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" It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes. "

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" Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention. "

" I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. "

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

" I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home. "

" My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' "

" 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. "

" Working with special needs children is hard. "

" I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. "

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

" I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. "