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" Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut. "
Arts
Acting
Drama
" Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby. "
Acting
Passion
Hobby
" Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying. "
Star
Perfect
Partying
" Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we? "
Theatre
TV
Suffering
" I don't miss 'EastEnders.' I did a two-stretch. That was enough. "
Enough
Miss
Did
" I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people. "
Golf
Day
Society
" I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different. "
Time
Theatre
People
" I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker. "
King
Apartment
Living
" I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured. "
Great
Dog
China
" I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet. "
Who
Artist
Feet
" I'm famous for being a silky midfielder. "
Famous
Being
" In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are sensitive; you think of all the work you've done, and it breaks your heart, but you learn to shrug it off and to carry on. "
Work
Play
Think
" I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job. "
Think
Grounded
Job
" It's great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people. "
Small
Theatre
Blur
" It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well. "
Done
Time
People
" It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. "
Day
Live
Life
" I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me. "
Days
Off
Me
" My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries. "
Run
School
Acting
" My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing. "
Riding
Wait
You
" My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf! "
Enjoy
Philosophy
You
" When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug. "
Television
Kid
Jacket
" When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison. "
Day
She
Born
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