I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
From Simon Callow
When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.
He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.
You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.
I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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