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" I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work. "

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" My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. "

" For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else. "

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" Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting. "

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" I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out. "

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" People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it. "