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"If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"
"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
"Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of."
"It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me."
"I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching."
"I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot."
"A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character."
"For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors."
"Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues."
"I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion."
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
"Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void."
"The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid."
"I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people."
"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
"The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to."
"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
"I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge."
"You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another."
"I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out."