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Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
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I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
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I just hate the idea of being well known.
I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.
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Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
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A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
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I belong to quite a lot of learned societies.
We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
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I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.
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Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?
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I've always tried to be an actor who.
.. I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.