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" The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles. "

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" Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream. "

" I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person. "

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" I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life. "

" My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous. "

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" Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, twice in London. "

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" It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people. "

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