As Much As The Next Person, I

I Was Delighted To Become A Popular-culture Reference Point. I'm Still Delighted About It Actually, And I Still Find It To Be Weird.

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.

I Think It's Quite Extraordinary That People Cast Me As If I'm Warren Beatty: Until I Met My Present Wife, At The Age Of 35, You Could Name Two Girlfriends.

Firth - All Dodgy 'tache And Frantic Eyebrows - Has Got The Sexual Allure Of A Man Who Runs A Swingers' Club In Surbiton.

And That Is A Hard Route For A Woman To Come Through. There's Still A Lot Of Roles That Have To Be Conformed To. It's Quite An Old Fashioned Environment In A Lot Of Ways.