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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
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It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
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I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
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I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.
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