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“I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.”
“It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.”
“I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.”
“In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.”
“Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.”
“The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in t...”
“I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is ac...”
“It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.”
“I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.”
“It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.”
“Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actu...”
“I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.”
“Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.”
“Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.”
“I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imaginati...”
“When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.”
“If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”
“They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it se...”
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the wa...”
“Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.”
