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It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

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Always, Other, Idea, Prescribe

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

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Going, Set, Travels, Discouraged

There are few things that are more revealing about someone than the way that they talk about a piece of literature or a play. You very quickly come to have a much deeper understanding of someone than you would if you just mingled together in a pub saying, 'All right, how are you?'

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Play, Very, Quickly, Pub

I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a mutual understanding. I wasn't interested in going to school and they said, 'You're not turning up,' so we severed ties. Both sides appreciated it.

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Both Sides, Year, Severed, Expelled

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

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Out, Before, Silences, Spaces

Some people are defined by what they do.

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People, Some People, Some, Defined

I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it's meant to be acted.

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Apply, Meant, Applied, Meant To Be

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

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Thoughts, Parent, Been, Scared

'1984' is terrifyingly relevant. It generates a political conversation, but it's an exciting piece of theatre. Every day, there are things to be spawned from Orwell's mind, whether it's in England or America, terrorist-related or government-related.

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Mind, England, Spawned, Conversation

I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.

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Bad, Always, Felt, Respected

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

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Thought, Doing, Finished, Apart

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

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Health, Mental, Difficult, Between

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

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Shadow, Concept, General, Platonic

I'd go as far as it takes. There's never too far. You do what you have to do for your girl.

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Never, Far, Too, As Far As

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

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Seriously, Set, Take, Preparing

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

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Character, Someone, Sentence, Shakespeare

The most important thing is, whatever you do decide to choose, take it seriously and do your best.

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The Most Important, Decide, Do Your Best

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

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Going, Made, Cast, Right Guy

I'm drawn to people rather than mediums - directors, writers, actors.

- Tom Sturridge

Rather, Than, Directors, Mediums

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

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Father, Watching, Hilarious, Philip

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

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Fan, Very, Lot, Cinema

I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.

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New, How, Deal, New Yorkers

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

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Wait, Okay, Like, Weird Thing

My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.

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Baby, Normal, Very, Normal Life

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

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Wait, Special, Audience, Buffalo

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

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Been, Obsessed, Couple, Work Out

The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.

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Stupid, Career, Pretty, Phrase

My core group of friends are all from when I was a kid.

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Friends, Kid, Group, Core

I wasn't a child actor. It was just three weeks of my life when I was eight.

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My Life, Three, Weeks, Child Actor

I spend the majority of my life not acting.

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Life, My Life, Spend, Majority

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