I Was Never A Leading Man. I've

I Do Love Perusing The Dictionary To Find How Many Words I Don't Use - Words That Have Specific, Sharp, Focused Meaning. I Also Love The Sound Of Certain Words. I Love The Sound Of The Word Pom-pom.

Nobody Ever Said That Growing Old Would Be Easy. Just Having To Hold The Newspaper Out In Your Forties And Then Hair Growing Out Of Unusual Parts Of Your Body In Your Fifties. It's Tough On The Ego.

Like Any Classic You Hope To Get Rid Of All The Varnish That's Built Up Over The Centuries Where People Expect It To Be In A Certain Way. It's A Mighty Play. It's About A Very Old King Who Also Happens To Be A Very Old Father, So You've Got The State And The Domestic Levels In There Together. It's A Story In Extremis. Everyone Knows The End, There's Only Two People Left Alive.

I Suddenly Became Aware Over The Last Couple Of Years That I'm In My Sixties. I Never Thought About It. I Thought I'd Better Start Acting My Age Or Find Roles That Are Going To Be Interesting To Me In The Sexagenarian Repertoire, Because It's Not What You Do In Your Forties Or Fifties.

I Wouldn't Mind Meeting Some Of The People I've Attempted To Portray From The Olden, Olden Days. They Probably Would All Have Really Terrible Skin And Horrible Bad Breath, And I'd Have To Give Them An Altoid.