Our attitudes have changed a lot, really, and so there's a certain toughness about it.

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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

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As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

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The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

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The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

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People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

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It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

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