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While I was in 'Inadmissible Evidence' at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal.

~Douglas Hodge

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For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Acting Big Brush Different Empathy Just Makes Really Strokes Thought Time

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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

~Douglas Hodge

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I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.

~Douglas Hodge

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When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.

~Douglas Hodge

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I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

~Douglas Hodge

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In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Acting Balanced Career Careers Difficult Directing England Had Juggle More Quite Two

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When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'

~Douglas Hodge

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It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Always Could Doing Eight End Get God Grass Greener How Just Lovely Movie Musical Now Oh Oh God Play Right Script Series Shows Suddenly Teeth Tends Think Tv Tv Series Week West Wish Would I Think I Wish

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To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.

~Douglas Hodge

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 25th, 1960

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