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It Was So Soon After I'd Had My Son And I Really Wasn't Planning On Going Back To Work For A While. I Will Walk Over Hot Coals To Work With Bill Condon On Anything, The Experience That You Have With Him Is Just Too Good... I've Certainly Never Worked With Him Before So The Trio Of Bill [codon], Ian [mckellen], And Sherlock Holmes, And England: It Was Too Much To Say "no" To.

What I Love About A Play Is That It's Such An Investment Because Only Time Can Create A Lot Of What Happens Onstage.

I Know That Actors And Actresses Have A Great Reputation For Being Very, Very Selfish, And In Some Cases, That's Very True. But In The Theater I Find It Doesn't Help You To Be Selfish. You Sort Of Have To Be Selfless In The Theater, And The More Selfless You Are - That Doesn't Mean Don't Take Care Of Yourself - But The More You Sort Of Surrender To The Work, I Find, The Better The Work Is. That's Just My Experience.

I Think Everyone's Journey Through This Crazy, Weird, Wild, Wonderful Area Of Work Named Acting Is Really Their Own. And If You're Going For Something That Isn't Yours, You're Wasting Time. You Could Be Focused On Your Own Work Instead Of Thinking About Somebody Else.

I Get Very, Very, Very Irritable With People Who Complain About Getting Old, Because I Know A Lot Of People Who Would Gladly Trade Places With Us. I'm Not Saying It's Easy, I'm Not Saying It Doesn't Hurt Your Feelings, I'm Not Saying It's Not Painful - And Physically As Well As Mentally And Spiritually - And It's Frightening At Times. However, People Have Really Lost Perspective, And It's A Really Bizarre Topic Of Conversation That It's Become A Cultural Peg In Our World That Aging Is A Bad Thing. It's Not Logical To Me.