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.’ Douglas Hodge Read Quote
In England, I’ve had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
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. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
When you sit down and there’s nothing, and then you write a song and there’s something, that’s the most extraordinary feeling. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
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 Read Quote
While I was in ‘Inadmissible Evidence’ at the Donmar, I was mugged at the HSBC ATM on Shaftesbury Avenue. I grabbed one of the men, and when the police arrived, they put both me and him against a wall until they worked out which of us was the criminal. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
I’m very prescriptive about my routine. Almost nothing changes: I have the same meal – pasta with Bolognese sauce – between shows; the person who dresses me stands on the same side every time; I take the same route to the stage. I’m very OCD about these things, as most actors are. Douglas Hodge Read Quote
