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" When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of. "

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" Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes. "

" Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting. "

" It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. "

" There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?' "

" There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything. "

" Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug. "

" I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad. "

" Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour. "

" What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it. "

" I'll always find the things that make a role complicated! "

" When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful. "

" I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive. "

" If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique. "

" A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage. "

" A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true. "

" What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other. "

" Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun. "

" 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour. "

" If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary. "

" I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes. "

" Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything. "

" The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed. "

" What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you. "

" They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places. "

" I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too. "

" I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'. "

" Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800. "

" My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'. "

" I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings. "