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And Costume Is So Important For An Actor. It Absolutely Helps To Get Into Character; It's The Closest Thing To You, It Touches You. Some Actors Like To Go Into Make-up And Then Put Their Clothes On, But I Like To Dress First; That's My Routine.

To Be Able To Do This Job In The First Place You've Got To Have A Bit Of An Ego.

It's Funny: I'm A Lifelong Musician, But Because I Principally Play The Piano It's Been A Solitary Thing.

I Had A Guitar When I Was 6 Or 7, A Plastic Guitar With The Beatles' Faces On It. It Would Be A Collector's Item Now. It Would Fetch A Hefty Sum, I Imagine.

I Took A Bit Of A Back Seat, I Had Kids And I Wanted To Focus On Them. There's That Period In The Late '90s, The Early 2000s, Where I Didn't Do A Great Deal.