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I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

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I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'

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I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.

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I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

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It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

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When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

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I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

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Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

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I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

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I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: July 31st, 1947

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