I'm Trying To Be A Comedian, You

I'm So Touched That Complete Strangers Will Send Me A Script Asking Me To Be In Their Film. That Still Amazes Me - And Sometimes For A Lot Of Money Too.

People Ask Me If I Ever Feel Outside The Hollywood Loop, And I Never Do, Because Both Of Us Do A Lot Of Theatre, So It's Great For New York And It's Also Half-way Between Europe And The West Coast, So It's The Best Of Both Worlds.

In Bed At Night, I Could Be Reading Some Book, And I'll Come Across A Sentence That's Totally Unrelated To Some Scene I Did Years Ago. But I'll Play The Scene Back In My Mind And Think, I Did That Wrong - I Should've Opened The Door More Slowly.

Listen, I Know How Old I Am And That I'm Just A Shoulder Injury From Losing Roles Like The One In Taken. So I Stay With The Training, I Stay With The Work. It’s Easy Enough To Plan Jobs, To Plan A Lot Of Work. That's Effective. But That’s The Weird Thing About Grief. You Can’t Prepare For It. You Think You’re Gonna Cry And Get It Over With. You Make Those Plans, But They Never Work.

It's Always Fun To Do The Fight Sequences And Then To Complete Them, Because Some Of Them Are Quite Complicated - With Guns And So On - And There's Always Things That Can Go Wrong. It's Fun To Shoot Those Things Because We Rehearse Them Very Strenuously. It's Fun To Shoot Them, And Fun To Know They're Finished, That They're In The Can So To Speak.