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I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

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I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.

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You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

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Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

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It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

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I didn't particularly aim to be a Shakespeare actor, but I suppose I had a certain gift or it; I certainly got offered lots of it. I liked Complicite and Shared Experience and Kick Theatre, and all the small theatre companies that were getting going. I wanted to be like that, making original theatre.

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It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.

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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: January 18th, 1960

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