I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I became an actor when I was 22.
I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield - he was Johnny Rotten in 'Sid And Nancy' - came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I've never looked back.
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.
I was 36 when I played Nicholas Nickleby.
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.