English - Actor | February 25, 1960 -
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
Douglas Hodge
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I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.
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When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
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I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
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In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.
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When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'
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To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless.
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I haven't watched telly for years.
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I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.
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I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'
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It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.
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It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
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