They're A Very Strange Lot Actors, Very

If Your Best Friend Has Stolen Your Girlfriend, It Does Become Life And Death.

I Never Went To Drama School. I Went Straight Into The Theater. We Had The Most Extraordinary Voice Teacher. I Worked With Her When I Was Starting Out In My Career. How To Place My Voice From A Very Relaxed Position Was All Wonderfully Reminiscent Of Going Back To The Basics. But I Always Like To Do That With Any Role That I Do, To Dismantle It And Put It All Back Together Again.

The Environment Forces You To Be Utterly Dependent Between "action" And "cut" Because The Environment Is Perfect On Your Fellow Actor. So As An Acting Exercise, It's Absolutely Thrilling That The Focus That We Had To Bring To Each Other Echoed In Life, Echoed In Art. And When You Get That Parallel, It's Really Thrilling And It's Full Of Surprises, But It All Has A Logic.

I Didn't Go To Drama School Because, From The First Refusal I Then, As I Said, A Couple Of Weeks Later, Was Offered A Professional Job, Where I Am Immensely Grateful To The Journey.

I Was Fortunate As A Young Actor, To Go Straight To The Rsc, Where I Learned That Being An Actor Can Bring With It Wonderful Responsibilities.