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" Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are. "
Free
Though
Think
" However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine. "
World
You
Together
" I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy. "
Working
Adore
Absolutely
" I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age. "
Age
Am
Difficult
" I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording. "
Creative
Music
Theatre
" I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it. "
Done
Work
Theatre
" I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career. "
Career
Money
Driven
" I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups. "
Who
People
Those
" I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. "
Every Day
People
Me
" I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff. "
Politicians
Go
Group
" I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London. "
London
Theatre
School
" It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging. "
Night
Next
Difficult
" I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty. "
Work
Against
Rocky
" I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche. "
Been
Driven
Fame
" I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly. "
Wanted
Bank
Never
" I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask. "
Also
Stand
Would
" Life's too short to be working with divas. "
Short
Too
Working
" Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon. "
Saying
Involved
Interest
" So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. "
Ground
Empty
Fame
" The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast. "
Someone
Original
Forward
" The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses. "
Actor
Cowboy
Riding
" There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience. "
Finding
Show
Sometimes
" There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them. "
Up
Mind
Because
" To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful. "
Intellectual
You
Reveal
" Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back. "
Night
Trouble
Home
" We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. "
Great
Us
America
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