It's Always Great To Play A Man

You Have To Communicate On A Much Greater Scale. With A Camera, You Can Use The Flick Of An Eye. On Stage, A Lot Of Other Things Are Happening That Can Pull Focus Or Energy. You're Always Thinking The Same Way, But You Have To Amplify Your Thoughts With The Volume Of Your Speech And The Ways You Use Your Whole Body To Communicate What You're Feeling. It's A Little Bit Different From Film.

I Envy Children Who Know That They're Going To Become Doctors, Know They're Going To Go Into The Forces Or Whatever. I Think Choice Is One Of The Hardest Things, But That's What I Try To Give My Children, To Say You Can Do Anything.

At Age 10 Or 12 He's Going To Boarding School In The Isle Of Wight. The Isle Of Wight Is, Of Course, Down At The Bottom Of England Just Off South Hampton.

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.

I Find What I Call The [bleep] Side Of The Industry Very Difficult. You Won't See Me At Other Peoples' Premiers. I Mean, I Go To My Own Premiers Because I Have To Help My Film, But I Don't Enjoy That Whole Side Of It. I Don't Enjoy Celebrityhood. I Love Getting A Seat In A Restaurant. I Love It When People Say Hi When I Don't Know Them. I Mean, That's Fine, But Apart From That, I Like The Elements Of Celebrityhood Which Make Living In The World Like Living In Your Own Village.