When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.
I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'
Hopefully I've gotten better as an actor as the years have gone on, but the type of work I want to do has never changed.
My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
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