My capacity as a monk was to ...

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
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Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
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You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
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The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.
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I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.
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