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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'

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Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

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To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

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When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

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Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

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I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

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My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

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I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

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Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 13th, 1949

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