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I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

He is great enough that is his own master.

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Perfection is the child of time.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.