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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

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My definition of success is control.

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If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

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Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

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You can't live in nostalgia-land.

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I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.

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The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

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I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

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I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

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'Thor' has got several big battles in it, a reckless, headstrong young hero who has to confront his past and deal with a complicated relationship with his father, it has lots of savage Europeans hacking each other to death at various points, and all of this sounded very much like 'Henry V.'

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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

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I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.

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Life is surreal and beautiful.

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To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.

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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.

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I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

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In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

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Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.

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I would say my voice is actor-neutral.

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I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.

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I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

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I'm by no means an opera buff.

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The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

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The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

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For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'

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I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.

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I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'

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I loved 'Kundun.'

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In any given project, there are a few moments where there is the usual disappointment, as it were, when you look in the mirror, and you realize you're not 23 and looking like Brad Pitt.

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How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

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