I Am Desperate To Do A Comedy

The Best Comedy Is Always Played Straight Down The Middle.

What I Learned In Guinea Is That We Are All Responsible For The State Of Our World. The World - And The System By Which We Trade, Share, Cooperate And Conflict - Is Clearly Not Working. We Are Only As Strong As Our Weakest Members. Unicef Is Run At Every Level By Strong, Relentlessly Energetic, Deeply Capable People Who Use That Strength, Energy And Capability To Help Those Who Need It Most: The Weakest, Most Disadvantaged Women And Children Of Our World. All I Can Do Now Is Help Make People Aware Of What Is Happening, Of What They Are Doing. That Is All That I Can Do. For Now.

I Always Found The Extraordinary Loss Of Life In The First World War Very Moving. I Remember Learning About It As A Very Young Child, As An Eight- Or Nine-year-old, Asking My Teachers What Poppies Were For. Every Year The Teachers Would Suddenly Wear These Red Paper Flowers In Their Lapels, And I Would Say 'what Does That Mean?'

It's Like Playing Tennis, You Play A Different Rally With Different People. Every Actor Is Different And The Chemistry Between Actors Is Different.

The Learning Is The Heavy Lifting. You Need To Get The Words Into Your Brain.