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" A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf. "
Restaurant
Child
Approach
" All actors say they're concerned about the state of the theatre, but what they're really concerned about is that there'll be less work around. "
Concerned
Say
Work
" Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned. "
Wrong
Feel
Need
" Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. "
Personality
My Own
Play
" I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. "
Actor
Movies
Theatre
" I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. "
Things
Learned
Firearms
" I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that. "
Remember
Hat
Guns
" I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. "
Comedian
Plays
Lot
" I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. "
Stand
Got
Mind
" I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems. "
Problems
Love
Know
" I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone feeding me the text. But I can get by in the theatre if I study hard for a couple of months. "
Speech
Remember
Me
" I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out. "
You
Disappointed
Book
" 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. "
You
Okay
Hate
" I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. "
Myself
Beard
Him
" I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. "
Learn
Writes
Say
" 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. Does that make sense? "
Me
Action
Bored
" I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. "
Rather
Fear
Contented
" 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. "
Car
Guns
Always
" I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. "
Cry
Beautiful
Go
" I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. "
Myself
Year
Would
" I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me. "
Fly
God
Me
" I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you. "
Believe
Look
People
" 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. "
Know
People
Mouth
" I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France. "
Pilot
License
Had
" I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man. "
Interesting
He
Old
" I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be. "
Good
Time
You
" Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard. "
Old
Why
Beard
" My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day. "
Playground
Day
School
" Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays. "
Always
Done
Oh Yeah
" 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? "
People
Acting
Say
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