The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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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’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
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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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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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It’s always important to have the blessing.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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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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Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.
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I feel like I’m away for much of my own life.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor.
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This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
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I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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