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I haven't watched telly for years.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Telly Watched Years

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I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Always Around Banging Come End Home Hours Just Piano Play School Songs Written

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I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Get Great Interpretation Just Play Stand Theater Think Way I Think

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It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Fall Hard Juliet Love Play Pretty Romeo Romeo And Juliet Someone

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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Big Hearts How Matter Music People Set Then Touch Want

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I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: About Against Any Aside Diana Did Different Doing Guy He Kind Looks Making Might Movie Nose Play Pulled Really Said Theater Thing Various Way Who Work

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If you're a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, 'McKellen did it this way,' and, 'Jacobi did it this way.' There's a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did 'La Cage.' It didn't bother me one bit.

~Douglas Hodge

Topics: Actor Any Bit Bother Cage Classical Did Every Found Hamlet La List Me Part People Play Richard Roles Say Shakespearean Then Those Way Whether Whole You Iii

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 25th, 1960

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