I Always Had A Fantasy Of Being

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.

But As My Voice Coach Keeps Saying, If We Actually Spoke The Way They Imagine The Elizabethan Voice Might Have Been, We Wouldn't Be Able To Understand It.

I Was Never A Leading Man. I've Always Been In The Outer Concentric Circles In The Company, Being A Character Actor, Which Is A Good Place To Be. It Gives You That Diversity.

When People Come And Tell Me I Was Terrific In This Or That, I Do Not Want To Fall Flat On My Face Next Time. But, Tough, I Have Fallen Flat Before. You Just Get Up And Dust Yourself Off.

Most Films I've Worked On Have Had Large Casts, But They've Been Wonderful People. I Think The Monkey In Pirates Of The Caribbean Is The Most Temperamental Costar I've Had. It Would Throw Tantrums Like You Wouldn't Believe.