For Sure, You Have To Be Lost

When People Come And Tell Me I Was Terrific In This Or That, I Do Not Want To Fall Flat On My Face Next Time. But, Tough, I Have Fallen Flat Before. You Just Get Up And Dust Yourself Off.

I Always Felt Thrilled And Amazed That I Could Put Actor On My Tax Form.

I've Discovered I Prefer To Prepare A Few Notes Or Actually Write The Speech So I Can Really Hone It Down To Hopefully Be Entertaining, Try And Get A Laugh At Least By The Second Line, And Then Say What You Need To Say.

Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.

Within Our Culture, Every School Has A Swimming Pool. We Lived On The Coast. People Swam In The Surf. It's A Very Sporty Nation And At That Particular Time Anyone Who Had An Artistic Bent Was Very Much An Outsider. So If You Liked Reading Or Ideas Or Playing The Piano Then Your Dad Viewed You As A Sissy, Basically.