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With Big, Emotional Roles It's Very Easy, Especially If You've Grown Up In The American School Of Acting, To Exploit Your Own Pain. You Have To Be Careful About That, Because 9 Times Out Of 10, Your Pain Is Not Appropriate To The Character.

I Enjoy Learning About Different Periods And People, And Then Taking What's Universal About The Human Condition And Seeing Where It Matches Up. No Matter Where You Are, Certain Things Unite Everybody.

My Castings Sort Of Go In Phases. There'll Be Several Icy Professional Parts - A Lawyer Or A Cop. And Then There'll Be The Intelligent-but-wounded Group And Then The Period Things. It Goes In Sequence.

I Get Cold - Really Cold - When I Travel.

It's Always Nice When You Do Something And It's Well Received As Opposed To The Other Way Which God Knows Happens To Everybody. When The Good Times Come Around, You Take A Deep Breath, Appreciate It, But Not Take It Too Seriously.