I'm Not Working-class: I Come From The

Acting Has Been Described As Farting About In Disguise.

Films Were Never In My Budget. Didn't Occur To Me Till Much Later. I Hoped For A Long, Good Life, Which I've Had And I'm Having As An Actor. I Didn't Expect The Rest.

I Will Not Be A Common Man. I Will Stir The Smooth Sands Of Monotony.

I Can't Tell You About Acting. You Can Develop All The Skills, Voice, Gesture, Movement, You Can Develop By Exercise And Practice But Finally Fundamentally It's Mining From Yourself, From Your Own Personality, From What You Know. If You Can't Know It You Can Have A Good Guess By People You Know Or Books You've Read.

Many Years Ago I Sent An Old, Beloved Jacket To A Cleaner, The Sycamore Cleaners. It Was A Leather Jacket Covered In Guinness And Blood And Marmalade, One Of Those Jobs... And It Came Back With A Little Note Pinned To It, And On The Note It Said, 'it Distresses Us To Return Work Which Is Not Perfect.' So That Will Do For Me. That Can Go On My Tombstone.