Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
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I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.
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My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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I have actual acting scars.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
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