The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.
I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then?
The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition and you get what you can. Choice isn't something that you have much of.
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.
I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
