An Acting Assistant Stage Manager In A

There Are A Group Of People Who Are Managing The World To Their Advantage And Who Just Look To The Rest Of Us As People Who Will Buy Their Products And Fund Their Salaries.

Sadly, One's Parameters Are Constantly Narrowed By One's Success.

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.

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 Nobody Since Has Written Such Extraordinary Work As Shakespeare Writes. The Characters He Writes Are Full Of Inconsistencies, Which Is A Great Human Quality - I Mean We're All Very Inconsistent In The Way We Behave.