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I don't really care any longer what other people think.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Penelope Wilton