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I Do As Much Comedy As I Possibly Can But I'm Basically Limited By The Imagination Of The Secretaries Who Make The Decisions.

People Talk About Me In Arcadia And I Think I Was Okay In It But Ive Given Better Performances In Other Productions That Didnt Have The Same Impact. But I Knew Arcadia Was Going To Be An Event And I Wanted To Be Part Of It.

My Career Has Suddenly Started To Be The One That I'd Always Wanted, Not In Terms Of Level Of Success, But In Terms Of - And This Is What I've Been Banging On About - Playing Different Parts In Different Media. I Was Very Frustrated, In A Physical Sense, By People Seeing Me In A Way That I Wasn't. And I Was Beginning To Find Myself Boxed Into A Corner. Hopefully Things Have Loosed Up A Bit, And I've Gotten Better And Become More Relaxed As An Actor.

I Wasnt A Model Schoolboy. Of Course, I Was Forced To Sit Through Shakespeare And I Really Got Into Some Of It, Though It Depended On Who Was Reading It Out.

Yes, Years Of Compromise And Disappointment Have Added Depth To My Acting.