It's Always Great To Play

I Find What I Call The [bleep] Side Of The Industry Very Difficult. You Won't See Me At Other Peoples' Premiers. I Mean, I Go To My Own Premiers Because I Have To Help My Film, But I Don't Enjoy That Whole Side Of It. I Don't Enjoy Celebrityhood. I Love Getting A Seat In A Restaurant. I Love It When People Say Hi When I Don't Know Them. I Mean, That's Fine, But Apart From That, I Like The Elements Of Celebrityhood Which Make Living In The World Like Living In Your Own Village.

The Fact Is That In England So Many Of Our Politicians Are Career Politicians - They've Always Been Politicians Since They Left Their Education. And In The Old Days Of Course Politicians Used To Be Fish Mongers Or Doctors Or Whatever. They'd Lived Life. These Days, Power Seems To Go To The Hands Of People That That's All They've Done. And I'm Not Sure That's A Good Thing, Because It Does Remove Them From The Realities Of Life.

So Nevertheless, What I'm Saying Is That What One Is - One's Parameters Are Constantly Narrowed By One's Success, And My Desire Is To Widen My Field Even If I Risk Failure.

The Great Thing About Acting Is, Because You're Constantly Playing Other Characters And Exploring Yourself Because You Have To Find Those Other Characters In Yourself, You Sort Of Broaden As A Person Over Your Life Because You've Been Other People. So You Can Empathize With Many Different Sorts Of People. It's Great In That Way And I Hope, Therefore, As You Get Older As An Actor, You Not Only Get More Interesting Because You Lived More, But You Get A Bit Wiser As A Person.

Because I'm Now Successful, What I'm Being Offered As An Actor Is More And More Of The Same.