I Was Not Naturally Intellectual, But Somebody

Americans Enjoy Uniformity In A Way That The British Don't; They Wanted Everybody Of A Sort Of Nice Chorus Line Height And Here I Was, This Person Who Was A Good Three Inches Taller Than Anyone Else On The End Of The Line.

We All Have Our Time Machines. Some Take Us Back, They're Called Memories. Some Take Us Forward, They're Called Dreams.

I've Always Thought Of Characters Like Advent Calendars. You Have Christmas And You Have All The Little Doors Over The Windows And Every Day You're Allowed To Open One More As It Gets Towards Christmas And You See More And More About What's Inside That House.i Remember As A Kid Being Fascinated By That And I've Always Thought Of My Character As A Little Bit Like That. I Like To Have Secrets And Slowly Let Those Secrets Out To The Audience, Sometimes Never Let Them Out, But Let Them See As You Open The Shutters, Open And See A Little Bit More Of A Character.

So Nevertheless, What I'm Saying Is That What One Is - One's Parameters Are Constantly Narrowed By One's Success, And My Desire Is To Widen My Field Even If I Risk Failure.

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.