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You're trying to form this human being that will fit the bill, and the human being becomes a hand, and the research is a glove, and you try to bring this character together into the research, mesh it, and create this person that is the sum total of all that endeavor.

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You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person.

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You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

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There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

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I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

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When I was at school when I was 16, I was in a quandary because I didn't know whether I wanted to join the army - I had this terrible desire to be a tank driver in the Royal Tank Regiment, genuinely - or whether I wanted to go to art college because half of me wanted to be in the army, and the other half of me wanted to be a surrealist.

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My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall.

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These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

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When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.

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Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 27th, 1936

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