I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

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He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

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I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

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I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

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I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

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Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

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I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

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