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" Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over. "
Actor
Kind
Know
" Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical. "
Some
Stage
Too
" I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. "
Writing
Myself
Independent
" I hope I have quite a few great roles to come. "
Come
Great
Hope
" I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. "
Cottage
Happy
Playing
" I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary. "
Help
People
Need
" I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.' "
Citizen
Film
Midnight
" It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character. "
Yourself
Character
Person
" I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager. "
Great
Been
Want
" I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments. "
Always
Friends
Traveled
" I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear. "
Royal
Career
King
" Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasn't that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly. "
Said
Wine
Diet
" Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men. "
Horses
Lawyer
Men
" One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy. "
Hands
Memories
Remember
" Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s. "
Late
Before
Acting
" People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus. "
People
Now
Say
" Some actors play themselves, don't they? "
Play
Some
Themselves
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