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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'