It's Always Useful To Be In Big

To Be An Actor You Need Various Things. You Need To Have A Head For Choosing The Roles. You Have To Be, Hopefully, Easy To Work With So People Enjoy Working With You. You Have To Deal With Missing Roles, With Not Being Asked To Work, With Doing Good Work And Then Being Castigated By The Critics For It. You Have To Have A Skin That Can Deal With All Of That. I, Fortunately, Seem To Have The Makeup Which Allows Me To Deal With The Business. I Mean, Not As Everybody.

You Look Worldwide For The Great Leaders, And They're Pretty Thin On The Ground, And Of Course The Problem Is Unless You're Squeaky, Squeaky Clean, Something Is Going To Come Out Of The Cupboard. Most People Aren't Squeaky Clean. Most People Have Fallen By The Wayside Once Or Twice In Their Lives, And Because The World Is So Transparent Now, I Think They're Very Fearful Of Running For Office. It's A Huge Shame, Because Often People Who Have Really Lived And Are Amazing People Can Be Brought Down By A Past Indiscretion.

My Father Was A Cpa. He Worked Hard In The Aircraft Industry, And Would Come Home More And More Infrequently. He Was About To Leave My Mother, Which He Did When I Was 15.

The Work I Prefer To Do Are The Smaller Budget Pictures, Television Can Be Great But It Ties You Up For Quite A Long Time.

Americans Enjoy Uniformity In A Way That The British Don't; They Wanted Everybody Of A Sort Of Nice Chorus Line Height And Here I Was, This Person Who Was A Good Three Inches Taller Than Anyone Else On The End Of The Line.