I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can’t tell you any line from any play I’ve ever done.
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I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don’t mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don’t want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.
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I hardly even leave my own house.
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I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
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A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It’s a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
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I used to do nothing but plays. I’ve been very fortunate that on several occasions I’ve had jobs where I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer – however much money you’ve got
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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I’m always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
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You get older and you see yourself and say, ‘God, he’s old, who’s that?’
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There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.
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Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow.”
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I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it’s called.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call ‘good manners,’ sometimes people don’t quite believe you. I’ve had that once or twice before, where they assume you can’t be for real.
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As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I’m greedy for beauty.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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