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• ‟ Philip of Spain is a ruler who has forgotten that a ruler is there to serve the people.

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• ‟ The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people recognise the universal in it. Because, that's how stories work.

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• ‟ Doing a TV show where it's a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the old ego and you do realise that you're only really ever as good as the words that you're saying, the people you're talking to, or more importantly, listening to.

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• ‟ I think 'The Musketeers' is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it's 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'. I've always been a big fan of Dumas because, on the one hand, he writes a lot about revenge, but he also writes about the cost of it to the revenger - I'd always had an interest in that.

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• ‟ I mean, I don't want to come down on call-out culture, because I guess it has its place, but there was an interesting article I read by a black feminist writer who was saying it brings shame into the equation. And shame can be very paralysing to people.

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• ‟ I think there's a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else. So we mustn't make anybody too interesting. There's an ironing out of edges and eccentricities, idiosyncrasies in people and situations.

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• ‟ Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.

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• ‟ When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.

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• ‟ There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies.

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