I Will Not Be A Common Man.

I Don't Go For This Auto-cannibalism. Very Damaging.

If You Can't Do Something Willingly And Joyfully, Then Don't Do It. If You Give Up Drinking, Don't Go Moaning About It; Go Back On The Bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

And Maddest Of All, To See Life As It Is And Not As It Should Be.

I Can't Tell You About Acting. You Can Develop All The Skills, Voice, Gesture, Movement, You Can Develop By Exercise And Practice But Finally Fundamentally It's Mining From Yourself, From Your Own Personality, From What You Know. If You Can't Know It You Can Have A Good Guess By People You Know Or Books You've Read.

It's Very Inconvenient Because Every Time I Finish, Let's Say, A Chapter Of A Book, I Think I'm Going To Ring Richard And Then Realize: Oh, Christ, I've Buried Him. I Buried Him Last Year.