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Eddie Redmayne

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 6, 1982

The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

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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.

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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

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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?

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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

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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.

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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.

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When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

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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.

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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

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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.

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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

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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.

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There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.

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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!

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'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

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