"I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced."
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"I'm woefully one-track-minded."
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"Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public."
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"I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language."
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"There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing."
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"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
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"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished"
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"You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up."
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"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
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"It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it."
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"I find it easier to work when it's quiet."
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"I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left."
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"Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that."
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"I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation."
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"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
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"I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer."
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"My main memories of my father are of his illness."
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"I've been very lucky."
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"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
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