Eddie Redmayne

“The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.”

“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'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.”

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

“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.”

“What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.”

“I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.”

“I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.”

“Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.”

“Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.”

“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.”

“I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.”

“A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.”

“Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.”

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

“If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.”

“Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.”