"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

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"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

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"Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all."

Now

"And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with."

Work

"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."

Age

"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

Interest

"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University."

Science

"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."

Opposition

"I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything."

Children

"Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same."

Success

"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."

Business

"My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15."

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