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Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Drama
Fool
Drama School
Forum
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Whenever I'm doing stage, I want to be doing screen, and vice versa.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Vice Versa
Versa
Vice
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I have a huge acting crush on Gene Hackman. I just love watching him.
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Gene
Hackman
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As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.
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Instinct
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People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.
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Aristocrat
Assume
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Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.
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Holiday
Sails
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When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.
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Anna
Chancellor
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I love travelling with my laptop because I get a bit nervous if I can't access my e-mails.
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Access
Nervous
Laptop
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I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.
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Hiking
Landscape
Scotland
Great Place
Mainly
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Since I've had kids, I thank God that I don't drink, as I really wouldn't have been able to cope.
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Thank God
Cope
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If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.
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New Generation
Totally
Original
Generation
Speaks
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When you have kids, you don't really watch TV anymore, and when I do, I binge-watch box sets of 'Breaking Bad.'
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Breaking
Breaking Bad
Sets
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I think all parts come with baggage unless it is a brand new play. If one was daunted by that, you would never do anything.
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Baggage
Brand New
Play
Thinking
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I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional.
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Cry
Time Music Me
Situations
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Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.
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Bread
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If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Bob
Dylan
Helpless
Musician
Would Be
Totally
Reed
Bob Dylan
Writers
Meet
Musicians
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I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.
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Jimmy
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I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood.
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Fodder
Repeats
Island
Star Trek
Trek
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Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Actors
Obsessed
Talking
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I remember my parents being really on me about speaking in a certain way when I was young, I think because they came from a class that aspired to talk like that.
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Me Remember Parents
Aspired
Certain Way
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I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling.
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Diving
Lotion
Sea
Shade
Swimming
Beaches
Love Swimming Me
Love Me Boring
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I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it.
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Blade Runner
Blown Away
Cinema
Empty
Blade
Blown
Flop
Runner
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'Black Sails' was an amazing experience, but it was a really tough show for me to do. After four years, it was pretty exhausting because it was such a huge production.
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Exhausting
Experience Amazing Me
Amazing Experience
Sails
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That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
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Children
Grandparent
Indulge
Naughty
Subversive
Bad Guy
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I grew up in the States and Canada for a while because my mum came over in the 1970s. We lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and then moved to Canada for a few more.
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Canada
Los Angeles
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Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Jobs
Groups
Growing Up
Moving
Totally
Different Types
Environments
Helps
Schools
Types
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I had a fantastic stepfather, so I didn't resent him in any way, although I was unnerved by him. He was not an easy man, although he was incredibly charming, gregarious, and fun.
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Charming
Gregarious
Resent
Stepfather
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My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
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Class
Narrow-minded
People
Thinking
Working Class
Certain Way
People Way Doing
Ended
Speaking
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Prior to doing a 'Bond' film, I was a young actor doing classical theater and some BBC dramas. Then, suddenly, I was thrown into this franchise. I had never experienced anything like it.
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Thrown
Bbc
Classical
Dramas
Experienced
Franchise
Prior
Young Actor
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Before children, it's kind of easy to be solipsistic - you and your wife are in this hermetic little thing, and your own desires, wants, needs, tastes dictate your choices. Then, suddenly, all of that's gone.
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Desires
Dictate
Little Thing
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It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into it and become too passionate about it, or you're disappointed.
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Enough
Passionate
Too Much
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They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to do that with the film, and it didn't work.' And then I read the script, and I actually liked it.
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Dubious
Work Space Me
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Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.
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Cutting
Cutting Edge
Engines
Play
Sheffield
Theatre
Afford
Edge
Experimental
National Theatre
Nobody Else
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I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.
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Enormous
Torment
Important Thing
Learnt
Most Important Thing
Realise
Squeeze
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The Humpback Trail on New Zealand's South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Amazing
Mountain
Prehistoric
Sea
Views
Fairly
Arduous
Forest
Island
Walk
Trail
Zealand
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Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Grace
Mysterious
No Idea
Roulette
Satisfying
Brief
Editor
Screen
Suddenly
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I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!
Toby Stephens / Television Actor
Haughty
Human Condition
Obnoxious
Posh
Condition
Certain Way
Label
Near
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