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Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.

~Tom Hollander

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In a thriving culture, you celebrate your achievements. In an exhausted one, you proclaim your disadvantages.

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For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

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Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.

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I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

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My parents are very lovely people - the sort of people that one should aspire to be like, really.

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My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

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Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

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I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

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I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: August 25th, 1967

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