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Making 'birdsong,' On The One Hand You Have How Prestigious It Is And The Reputation Of The Book, Which Is Something That's An Extraordinary Piece Of Work. Sebastian Faulkes Is A Genius. So You Feel That Responsibility When You're Portraying That Character That He's Imagined And Millions Of Readers Have Pictured.

A Lot Of People Think Theatre Must Be Much Harder Work Than Film, But Anything Histrionic Or Superfluous Gets Seen On Camera So You Have To Work To Distil It Into A Complete Sense Of What's True.

Learning Lines Is Hard For Me Because I Have The Attention Span Of A Six Year Old. That's Why Being On Planes All The Time Is So Useful - I'm Forced To Learn Out Of Boredom.

I Draw And Play The Piano Badly. But When I’m Doing Those Things, I’m Concentrating So Hard There’s No Room For Worry. I Find That Onstage, Too.

It Can Be A Miserable Profession, Acting, Because You Always Want What You Can’t Have.