I'm Getting Older , So I'm Quieting

The Rest Of Europe Tends To Be Very Comfortable With Sexuality. The British And The Americans Are Kind Of Hung Up About It.

I Never Had Any Desire To Be Famous. I Find People Who Do Really Sad. I Genuinely Feel Sorry For Them Because There Is Nothing Of Substancein Their Lives. I Am Happy When I Am Writing Or Performing. Not When I Sit There Being "famous". I Like Recognition For My Work, But Not Recognition For Being "that Bloke Off The Telly". It Is Genuinely Humbling When A Woman Comes Up To Me, As Someone Did Recently, To Say She Wanted To Commit Suicide After Her Husband Died, And My Show Cheered Her Up And Made Her Feel Better. That's Great.

I Think It's Always Funny When You See Kids Do Shakespeare. When I Was At School, I Was In Hamlet. I Played Claudius, Who's Supposed To Be A 60-year-old Man, And I Was Like 18. It's Inherently Ridiculous Seeing 18-year-old Boys With Gray Beards. That's Always Funny.

Two Thousand Years Ago, The Holy Family Had A Ramble From Nazareth To Bethlehem - In Much The Same Way As I'm Having A Ramble From Norwich To Swaffham. Although I'm Not Comparing Myself To Jesus - I Don't Want To Get Bogged Down In That Whole Controversy Again.

Look At The 18th Century. There Was A Lot More Freedom Going On.