” Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena – Warrior Princess. If you don’t do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men. “
” If you’re going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens. “
” I just don’t think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for. “
” It’s lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that’s also interesting. “
” My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells. “
” I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things. “
” The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people’s preconceptions of what they have in their heads. “
” Part of George R.R. Martin’s brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet. “
” As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is. “
” I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: ‘No, you don’t. “
” I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out. “
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