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I've Been Acting A Long Time, And I Can Play A Cockney Gangster Or A Womanizer In My Sleep Or Standing On My Head. But What I Try To Do Is I Try To Find Characters That Are As Far Away From Me As I Possibly Can And Then Make Them Real. A French Nazi Is About As Far Away From Me As I Can Possibly Get Without Actually Going To Mars Or Something.

To Me, 'educating Rita' Is The Most Perfect Performance I Could Give Of A Character Who Was As Far Away From Me As You Could Possibly Get And Of All The Films I Have Ever Been In, I Think It May Be The One I Am Most Proud Of.

When You Reach The Top, That's When The Climb Begins.

I'm Trying To Work Only With Established, Respected Directors. I Took A Lot Of Bad Scripts And Worked For A Lot Of Lazy Directors, And It Was Discouraging To Go To The Screenings And See That The Director Had Added Nothing, The Editor Had Added Nothing, There Was Nothing To See.

Just Because I Have Made A Point Of Never Losing My Accent It Doesn't Mean I'm An Eel-and-pie Yob.