I Do Think I'm A Character Actor.

I Was Gearing Up For It. I Took Some Singing Lessons. And I Opened My Mouth, And Atom Promptly Said, 'that's Not Going To Happen. We Love Your Voice, But Maybe We Could Use Some Of Your English Wit.' He Had Doubts About It From Way Back. For Starters, We Weren't Going To Be Doing The Italian-american Crooning Thing.

Sometimes To Think About Why Some Institutions Are Stable, It's Interesting To Go One Generation Back And Look At The Author Of That Stability.

To Be Bothered Wherever You Go - It's Not A Rational Thing To Want At All.

I Feel More Comfortable In Drama. Comedy's Is A High-wire Act. I Find It Stressful. It's A Precision Science, In A Way. And When You're Filming, The Thing Comedy Depends On Becomes A Much More Difficult Commodity. The Thing You Depend On Is Spontaneity.

It's A Funny Thing - The Reality Is I Have No Feelings About School. It's Long Gone. Funnily Enough, The Bad Memories - Of Which I Don't Have Any Left To Be Honest, I Can Just Remember A Sense Of Tedium - Have Faded. And Teachers That I Liked Have Remained Quite Vivid. There Are Three Or Four Left.