The Key To Acting Has Much More

I'm Very Old-school. I Like A Director To Direct Me. I Like To Be The Actor. I'm Not Particularly Fond Of The Hybrid Writer-director, Or Actor-director. Writers, Directors, Actors Are All Such Very Different People. I Think It's Unusual That Two Of Those People Are In One Human.

I Have Been Known For Almost 30 Years To Sort Of Do Whatever Comes My Way. It's Always Been Touch-and-go After Each Job Finishes. I Just Like To Be Working.

An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

I Think The Funny Thing About Acting For Me - And I Hold It In A Very Holy, Spiritual Way - Not To Be Overly Fundamentalist About It, But It's That Important To Me - Is That It Is An Ancient Healing Art.

As An Actor, You Live A Little Bit Of A Cloistered Life. It's A Lonely Life. You Oddly, Strangely Find Yourself All Alone, Quite Often, With A Lot Of Time To Think.