Now In My Theater Training I Showed

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.

The Fact Is That In England So Many Of Our Politicians Are Career Politicians - They've Always Been Politicians Since They Left Their Education. And In The Old Days Of Course Politicians Used To Be Fish Mongers Or Doctors Or Whatever. They'd Lived Life. These Days, Power Seems To Go To The Hands Of People That That's All They've Done. And I'm Not Sure That's A Good Thing, Because It Does Remove Them From The Realities Of Life.

Actors Often Behave Like Children, And So We're Taken For Children. I Want To Be Grown Up.

I Find What I Call The [bleep] Side Of The Industry Very Difficult. You Won't See Me At Other Peoples' Premiers. I Mean, I Go To My Own Premiers Because I Have To Help My Film, But I Don't Enjoy That Whole Side Of It. I Don't Enjoy Celebrityhood. I Love Getting A Seat In A Restaurant. I Love It When People Say Hi When I Don't Know Them. I Mean, That's Fine, But Apart From That, I Like The Elements Of Celebrityhood Which Make Living In The World Like Living In Your Own Village.

I Think I Would Not Be Described As A Character Actor In That I Don't Take On Characteristics Which Are Very Alien To Me.