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I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

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You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.

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Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display.

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The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

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It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.

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I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

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Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

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There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

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I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

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I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: June 30th, 1963

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