In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.
I've been an actor since I was a kid.
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.