” When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you’re in the way. “
” You don’t come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up. “
” If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn’t happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it’s bitter. “
” I am not hugely famous, I am not a name. For me, it’s not the size of the role, it’s the material and the people you are working with. “
” I didn’t become an actor to make money. And I didn’t become an actor to be famous – though people always gasp if you say that, as if it’s unfathomable that an actor doesn’t want to be a star. “
” What’s really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don’t really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it’s disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job. “
” When you label someone ‘up and coming’ or ‘the new breakout,’ there’s this kind of expectation. And I think, like I said before, it’s very hard to live up to that expectation when you really don’t have that much power as an actor – in terms of your career path and the timing. “
” You know when you’re a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There’s no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play. “
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