I Don't Spend A Lot Of Time

A Way Of Describing Performances That I Admire Is That There Is An Absence Of Careerism. It's A Clumsy Way Of Describing It But It Sort Of Does It For Me.

One Is That You Legislate According To Natural Selection, The Other Is That You Don't. You Have Compassion, You Try And Help People. It's A Fundamental Clash Between Two People Who Happen To Love Each Other, Which Complicates Everything.

Never Go Anywhere You Have To Wear Brown Shoes.

I Used To Joke That One Of The Reasons There Was A Lack Of Classical Work On My Cv Was Because I Couldn't Operate In Those Kinds Of Trousers. Which Is A Joke, But It's Actually Also True - If I Want To Appear In Public I Want To Look My Best. If I'm Onstage I Like To Do Contemporary Work, Largely Because Of The Trousers, Because Of The Clothes. I Like A Decent, What We Used To Call A Lounge Suit. Then I Can Start To Motor.

I Did Actually Sit Down With A Blank Sheet Of Paper Once. I Think The Phone Rang And That Was The End Of My Literary Career.