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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I’ve played villains on stage – you know, the Iagos and so on – but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

There’s something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

Well, first of all I’ll say that I come alive best in theater.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn’t develop any bad habits.