I Think If I Were To Go

When I Choose A Role It's Either Because I Recognise The Man, Or That I'm Very Curious To Know Him. If I Neither Recognise Nor Know Him, Then It Is Better That I Don't Play Him.

I Think That Shakespeare Had His Male Side And His Female Side Extremely Well Developed. And This Was A Great Quality Of The Elizabethan, All-around Renaissance Man. They Were Not Afraid Of Their Male Side And Their Female Side Co-existing. This Somewhere Along The Line Got Lost. And Then It Got Misunderstood.

If The Director Wishes To Print It, Then You Have A Series Of Choices, Maybe Millions Of Choices Within That Minute-and-a-half, Or 80 Seconds, Or 2 Minutes Or However Long Or Short The Take Is, You Have All Those Choices Committed To Celluloid. I Find That Absolutely Thrilling.

I Don't Honestly Think People Know What Acting Is.

Hopefully, As I Get Older In The Business, I Make My Choices More Accurately, And I Perhaps Know From Either The Script Or The First Meeting That It Isn't Going To Work.