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I Definitely Consider Myself A Method Actor, Because Of My Training. I Might Dispute What People Consider A Method Actor To Be. For My Money, A Method Actor Is An Actor Who Has A Technique. That Has A Method. And Not One Method, But Whatever Might Be Required. So A Method Actor Is Always Learning.

I Am A Smoker, I'm Ashamed To Say. I Had Given It Up For Many Years, Then Picked It Up Again. It's A Horrible Habit. I Struggle With Myself All The Time. And I Love To Smoke. An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

I'm Very Old-school. I Like A Director To Direct Me. I Like To Be The Actor. I'm Not Particularly Fond Of The Hybrid Writer-director, Or Actor-director. Writers, Directors, Actors Are All Such Very Different People. I Think It's Unusual That Two Of Those People Are In One Human.

You Can't Really Gauge The Difficulties Of Television. There's Difficulties And Joys That Happen With An Amazing, Great Team, When One Is Working. Television Can Be A Very Frustrating Job For Almost Anybody Working In Television, Because You're Shooting Episodically, And You Don't Know One Scene From The Next, And Maybe They Change Around.

The Climate Informs The Character.