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In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Brilliant Culture Defined Good Good Looks He Head Him His Important Looks Man Matter Nose Our Plastic Poet Straight Surgeon Time Today Who

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The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Acting Clubs Competition Doing Four Gigs Just Led Me Men Off Only Prize Pupils School Showing Survived Talent Teachers Thought Three Time Way Winning Working

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The review I've been most offended by came when I played Hamlet. I'd always prided myself on being an 'invisible actor' and not getting in the way of the play. But this review didn't mention me once. That's worse than being insulted.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Actor Always Been Being Came Getting Hamlet Insulted Invisible Me Mention Most Myself Offended Once Play Played Review Than Way Worse

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I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the source of the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. It's taken us three years so far, and we're only half way.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Been Charlie Doing Far Half Houses Little Only Parliament Project Son Source Taken Thames Three Us Way Years

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The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Actor Black Bond Least Next Ought Woman

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I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Because Been Blocked City Down Every Familiar Filming Forever Get Grumpy London Love Movie New New York Off Own Put Seen Shooting Street Streets Trying Up York You I Love

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I'm very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal - pasta with Bolognese sauce - between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I'm very OCD about these things, as most actors are.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: About Actor Almost Almost Nothing Between Changes Dresses Every Every Time Me Meal Most Nothing Pasta Person Route Routine Same Sauce Shows Side Stage Stands Take Things Time Very Who

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There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Amount Certain Genius

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As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Any Buy Carpet Compulsive Cover Directed Down Even Ever Fashion Find Hardly Lived Male Papers Read Reading Seems Single Single Word Soon Sticky Sunday Supplements Them Though Walk Who Word You

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I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Dad Day Every Every Day Grew Heat Him Kent Leaving Me Noise One Day People Remember Station Travelling Up Victoria I Remember

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 25th, 1960

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