This Is The Great Luxury Of Not

Listen, Acting Is Not Surgery, It's Entertainment. You're Doing Something To Hopefully Move People, To Make Them Laugh, To Transport Them. But Actors Are Vulnerable, And The Reason We're Vulnerable Is That We're Always Trying To Recreate Human Behaviour.

On So Many Levels, Acting In Film And Tv Is So Much The Sum Of Its Parts, And Somewhere In There, There's An Alchemical Thing That Makes Something Happen Or Not - That Makes Something Connect Or Not. Now, Of Course You Want To Make Work That People See, But The Enjoyment I Get Out Of Acting Is Playing Characters.

I Have This Horrific Thing Where I'm Really Bad With Names And Faces. I Have An Appalling Memory. Someone Will Come Up To Me In The Street And Go, 'eddie!', And I'll Try And Give Myself Time By Going Into Overdrive, 'hey, Hi! Nice To See You!' And Start A Whole Conversation Because I Can't Distinguish Between Who I Know And Who I Don't.

The Fear Of Messing Up Is What Makes You Work Harder!

I'm Trying To Buy A House And Set Some Sense Of Roots Because Otherwise You're Constantly Chasing One Job After Another, And You Look Back And You've Had All These Very Extraordinary Experiences With Extraordinary People, But There's Not A Line Of Continuity To It.