"I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."
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"When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point."
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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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"I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes."
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"I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work."
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"In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it."
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"I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past."
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"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
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"For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites."
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"If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it."
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"I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did."
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"A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands."
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"England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter."
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"Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again."
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"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
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"When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus."
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"I'm not picky, quite honestly."
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"I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent."
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"When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life."
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"The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot."
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