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There Are Ways Of Avoiding Becoming Tabloid Fodder And Therefore Giving People License To Pry Into Your Private Life. And There's A Distinction Between Being An Actor And Being A Celebrity. You May Become A Celebrity Through Acting, But You Don't Need To Do So.

It's Certainly True That I Was Brought Up In That British Amateur Tradition, The One Which Always Held That If You Were Reasonably Good At Cricket, Knew One Or Two Latin Texts And A Few Zingy Oscar Wilde Quotes For Dinner Parties, You Were Pretty Much Ready To Go And Run Some Outpost In Hindustan.

You Can't Do Something That Is Morally Vacuous Or Dysfunctional And Then Write It Off Saying, 'it Wasn't My Film, I Was Just Doing A Job In It.'

Of Course The Lower Classes Have Always Felt Downtrodden And Aspired To A Better Life. But There Is This Theory That People Respond To A Class Structure In England - There Was A Time When People Knew Who They Were And Knew Whom They Served And As Long As Management Wasn't Abusive, It Was A Good Life For People.

Quiet People, People Who Arent Given To Emotional Outbursts, People Who Are Economic With Words - Theyre Also Fun To Play, But You Find Yourself Needing A Laser Precision In Those Roles. Otherwise You Just Sort Of Stand Around, Looking Slightly Brain-dead. You Worry About Being Uninteresting.