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" Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached. "
Acting
You
Business
" Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living. "
Kid
Nice
You
" Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business. "
Advice
Ask
Business
" Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!' "
Looking Forward
Looking
Son
" Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do. "
Got
Actor
Felt
" During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks. "
Fun
Childhood
Sticks
" Gay nightclubs offer better dance music. "
Music
Gay
Better
" I don't get recognised that much in the street. "
Get
Street
Recognised
" If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe. "
Star
Never
Child
" I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives. "
Doing
Child
Myself
" I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved. "
Parents
Proud
Achieved
" In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be. "
You
Pilot
Time
" I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all. "
Rest
Choose
Control
" I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying. "
Child
You
World
" My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds. "
Born
India
Life
" My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school. "
Divorce
Good
Me
" People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice. "
Nice
New
Me
" What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors. "
You
Look
Significant
" When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head. "
Head
Father
Class
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