I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.
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You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
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I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
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I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
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It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
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That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.
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Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
