"I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel."
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"I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look."
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"Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?"
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"I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been."
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"There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story."
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"I sometimes think that theatre is a torture."
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"I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician."
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"I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change."
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"Everything contains its antithesis."
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"I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots."
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"Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world."
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"If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso."
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"In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half."
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"I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent."
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"I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'"
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"In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be."
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"I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money."
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"I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really."
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"I often don't feel like the person I look like."
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"I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short."
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