I don't know how to play a character unless I love him.

Cody Fern

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I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

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'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.

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With 'Versace,' after I had gotten the , it was two weeks of preparation before I started filming, and I had read Maureen Orth's book; I had been able to get a hold of photos and really start to inhabit the mind of David Madson.

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With 'Horror Story', it really was, 'You're going to run; you're going to jump off this cliff, and trust that that Ryan Murphy is going to catch you.' So I just ran head-on into it and jumped off the edge of that cliff.

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It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

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Good acting is good acting, whether it's on stage, on TV, or in films.

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I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.

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The thing about working on a Ryan Murphy TV show is that he has such an extraordinary collective of artists, so everyone is really like a family.

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I'm a very positive person in my life. I'm very optimistic.

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I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.

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When I was at uni, I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be here.' Something just didn't feel right. When I finished, I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition, and I'm not going to fight that.

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When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

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I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

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I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I used to cry and run; they seemed so powerful and so unpredictable.

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I remember watching Cate Blanchett in 'Elizabeth' and feeling like for the first time - even though that time period wasn't happening now - that I believed that role.

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I would want to do a role like the one Ezra Miller had in 'We Need To Talk About Kevin.' That is a real juicy role.

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I love everything about Benedict Cumberbatch because he's so intelligent and talented.

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People don't think of themselves as evil.

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There are people in positions of power that are righteous about what they believe: they're enacting out evil principles, but they don't believe that that's what they're doing.

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For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

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