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They Know You're Not Alfred Hitchcock, But You Need To Be Enough Alfred Hitchcock For Them Not To Be Bothered By It. That's A Reassuring Thing.

We're Interested By Public Personas And Private Personas, Otherwise We Wouldn't Put On With Actors Rambling On With The Same Kind Of Stuff, Over And Over Again, Saying Variations Of The Same Thing. I'm Always Amazed By How Fascinated People Still Are By Actors Because It's The Same Version Of Events That Actors Describe, All The Time.

When You're Training As An Actor, A Lot Of The Big Work You're Learning Is To Treat Fictional Characters Like Real People. You Don't Have The Problem Of Discovering A Backstory With Real People, But There's Always A Mystery Which Is Common To Both Fictional And Factual Characters. They Are Never Quite The Person You Think They Are.

There Is This Miraculous Thing I Heard Hugh Grant Talking About - The Thing About Screen Acting Is That You Can Read People's Thoughts. You Are Trying To Register Something Inside And Usually The Eyes In Cinema Are Where You Will Register That.

I Do Always Feel Very Proud And Flattered By Being Asked To Be A Part Of American Productions Playing American Characters.