If you’re a classical actor, every Shakespearean part you play, you then say, ‘McKellen did it this way,’ and, ‘Jacobi did it this way.’ There’s a whole list of Oliviers and people, whether you play Hamlet or Richard II or Richard III, any of those roles. And I found that a bit when I did ‘La Cage.’ It didn’t bother me one bit. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
I was doing a movie, ‘Diana,’ and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, ‘I’m about to do ‘Cyrano.’ So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of ‘Pinocchio’ theater thing. The way that it’s described in the play is this disfigurement. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he’d head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano’s time, the nose was who he was, and it didn’t matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
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. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
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.’ Douglas Hodge Read Quote
I’ve always written songs. I’d come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
I’m always being introduced as ‘Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.’ It’s extraordinary. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
To do eight shows a week saying exactly the same lines, you have to be obsessively perfecting it or utterly mindless. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I’m doing a movie, I suddenly think, ‘Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.’ If I’m doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, ‘God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.’ Douglas Hodge Read Quote