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Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

Eddie Redmayne

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Eddie Redmayne
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: January 6
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Edward John David Redmayne
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