My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.
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I’m not a fan of Twitter.
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Once in a while it’s good to challenge yourself in a way that’s really daunting.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids’ show called ‘Let’s See.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don’t have an agenda. It’s more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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Actors aren’t stupid, mostly, and if there’s a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director’s going for, if you’re aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
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I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they’re so universal.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.
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You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, “Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace.” Then you’re able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that’s been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.
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I wouldn’t do my roles if I really hated it. I’ve done things I hated, but I didn’t go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don’t want to go to work and not enjoy it.
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I don’t feel I’m a compulsive person. I multitask. I’m really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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