Every Job Is Different. I Don't Think

I Like Doing Everything - Theater And Film, Radio And Tv, Comedy And Tragedy. I Love It All. And I've Never Really Planned Anything - I've Always Looked At My Job In A Rather Simplistic Way. It's Like Being A Plumber. One Day You Might Be Fixing An Early 20th Century Showerhead That Requires Real Detailed Work. The Other Day You Might Just Be Clearing A Sewer. Both Jobs Are Very Different, But All The Tools Come Out Of The Same Box. That's The Way I Look At Acting.

When I Look Back On My Career - If That's What It Is - It Looks A Bit Like A Crazy Quilt, And I Think It's Just Really Because, When One Job Has Finished, I've Never Really Been In A Position Where I Had Three Or Four Options.

My Father Was A Waiter Basically, And When I Got My First Professional Job As An Actor, I Left A Job That He Found Me For Half The Amount Of Money. So Anyone Would Think That They're Stupid, That That Would Be A Stupid Move.

Screen Work Always Boils Down To That Moment Between The Camera And The Actor Or The Actors. It Always Boils Down To That, Ultimately. You Serve The Camera.

I've Always Loved Teaching Acting. I Think It Helps Me To Kind Of Get Back To Basics. It's Like A Refresher Course For Me As Well, So In A Sense, I'm Hopefully Learning As Much As My Students Are - Or At Least Discovering Or Re-discovering As Much As They Are. I Find That When I Teach, I'm Reminded Of My Own Sort Of Failings. I'm Reminded Of Where I Sometimes Keep Going Wrong.