When I Look Back On My Career

When I Get Home After Being Away For Work, My Wife Always Stuffs The Fridge With Loads Of What She Calls 'nibbles' - All The Great Things You Can Eat Straight From The Fridge, Like Chunks Of Cheese, Slices Of Ham, Bowls Of Hummus.

When I Look Back On My Career - If That's What It Is - It Looks A Bit Like A Crazy Quilt, And I Think It's Just Really Because, When One Job Has Finished, I've Never Really Been In A Position Where I Had Three Or Four Options.

I Never Made Conscious Choices. There Were Times In My Life That I Chose The First Job That Came Along Because I Was Broke. I Think That There Were Maybe A Handful Of Times That I Had A Choice. In Recent Years, Ive Had More Of A Choice, And Its Been Very Nice To Have That Choice, But Most Of The Time, You Just Hope That Theres Another Job After This One.

I Think Enjoying Each Other In A Creative Way Is Usually A Result Of When You're Doing Something That Might Be Problematic - Might Be A Little Difficult To Uncover. I've Done It Once In A Stage Production; We Came In For Two Days And, Just As An Experiment, The Director Had Us Reading Each Other's Roles. You Hear Another Voice Interpreting A Line That Maybe You Were Having Trouble With. It Can Be Very Helpful. But We Weren't Really In The Kind Of Situation Where That Was Necessary.

I Like Doing Everything - Theater And Film, Radio And Tv, Comedy And Tragedy. I Love It All. And I've Never Really Planned Anything - I've Always Looked At My Job In A Rather Simplistic Way. It's Like Being A Plumber. One Day You Might Be Fixing An Early 20th Century Showerhead That Requires Real Detailed Work. The Other Day You Might Just Be Clearing A Sewer. Both Jobs Are Very Different, But All The Tools Come Out Of The Same Box. That's The Way I Look At Acting.