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" Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. "

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" I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. "

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" The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. "

" We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies. "

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" Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. "

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" I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. "

" I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. "

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