There's So Much Crap Talked About Acting.

There's So Much Crap Talked About Acting.

When I Choose A Role It's Either Because I Recognise The Man, Or That I'm Very Curious To Know Him. If I Neither Recognise Nor Know Him, Then It Is Better That I Don't Play Him.

I Think That Shakespeare Had His Male Side And His Female Side Extremely Well Developed. And This Was A Great Quality Of The Elizabethan, All-around Renaissance Man. They Were Not Afraid Of Their Male Side And Their Female Side Co-existing. This Somewhere Along The Line Got Lost. And Then It Got Misunderstood.

I Have A Rather Naive Approach, I Think, To My Job.

I Don't Want To Be Like The Actor Who Rehearses Everything In The Bathroom, Then Comes To The Set And Carries On Completely Uninterrupted While The Other Actors Tiptoe Away. I'm So Dependent On Reacting To The Other Actors On The Set, And To The Director. I'm Very Responsive. I React. And I Treasure The Energy That Reaction Gives. I Feed Off That And Work Off That. I Don't Like To Be Too Prepared, No. However We Define Too Prepared, If I Feel It's Getting That Way, Then I'll Back Off. My Line-learning Is Very Special. I Like To Learn The Dialogue Of The Whole Film Before I Arrive.