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  I started to itch to do a play again and ‘Macbeth’ came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do it in a conventional way. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn’t interest me.

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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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  My feeling about work is it’s much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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  Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety’s not my forte.

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  For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don’t think you’re very good at it – which is rubbish. You’re missing out here.

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  I’ve actually found – especially doing my cabaret show – I’m connecting with people in a way I haven’t connected with them. I’ve found that when you’re open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you’re being open and honest about.

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  He … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

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  With all this stuff going on, with the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely.

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  Working with good people is always good.

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  So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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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 usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it’s a struggle sustaining that, because there’s such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

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  The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.

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  I’m quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

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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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  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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