I Do Think I'm A Character Actor.

I Have A Kind Of Neutrality, Physically, Which Has Helped Me. I Have A Face That Can Be Made To Look A Lot Better - Or A Lot Worse.

If You're Playing Someone Who's Impeded By Fear, Or Shyness, Or Has Whatever Dysfunction Your Character Might Have, You Have To Achieve The Dysfunction First, Imaginatively, In Order To Play Someone Who Is Trying To Negotiate Their Way Out Of It.

It's An Unknown Quantity. It's Actually Almost A Cliché To Say It, How Hard Comedy Is. What's That Famous Quote? "dying Is Easy, Comedy's Hard." I Think The Broader It Gets, If You Miss By A Millimetre, You've Missed Completely. It's A Very Hard Thing To Do.

It's A Very Dangerous State. You Are Inclined To Recklessness And Kind Of Tune Out The Rest Of Your Life And Everything That's Been Important To You. It's Actually Not All That Pleasurable. I Don't Know Who The Hell Wants To Get In A Situation Where You Can't Bear An Hour Without Somebody's Company.

One Of My Grandfathers, Actually, Having Gone Out There As A Minister, Decided He Would Better Serve The People As A Doctor. So At A Very Late Age - At The Age Of 38 In Fact - He Changed Course And Decided To Become A Doctor.