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I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.
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Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.
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I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.
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I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.
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I'd never done any Beckett before 'Krapp,' and I haven't done any of his other plays since. I've always felt that 'Krapp' is an autobiographical piece.
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
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I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
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I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.
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I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
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To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
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I'm somewhat old-fashioned, and I still talk about playing a part. I don't talk about my work - 'I've seen some of your work' - there's not much work in it, is there?
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'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.
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I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.
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I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.
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There's an awful lot of hanging around when you're doing science fiction. Going down and waiting for them to set up, being told to go back to your dressing room while they change the track and the lighting and so on.
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Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.
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Everything that came to me, in terms of the ritzier side of performing, was a plus.
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I don't know whether I inspire anything in anyone.
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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
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One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.
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If I'm doing a play, 30 to 40 percent of the people that come to the stage door have pictures of 'Alien' for me to autograph. And usually, the photos are pretty gory ones.
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I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
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I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.
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I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
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