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It Is Brilliant Going To The Theatre And Being Forced To Sit And Listen And Think About Life. It Can Be Almost A Near-religious Experience.

It's Quite Frightening; The Business Of Trying To Be Funny Is Very Hairy. In Comedy, The Potential For Humiliation Is Huge. Trying To Be Funny And Failing Is About The Most Embarrassing Thing You Can Do.

In My First Few Years As An Actor, I Took One Terrible Tv Job After Another. But Even As I Laughed Off My Awful Roles And Made Fun Of Myself To Friends, My Work Made Me Cringe - I Dreaded Anyone's Seeing It. I Was Crushed That I Wasn't Doing Anything I Was Proud Of.

You Never In A Million Years Thought That You Would Ever End Up In A Woody Allen Film Even Though That Might Be Your Dream, And There You Are. Suddenly You've Got One. But You're Not Playing The Quintessential Woody Allen Heroine, Which Is Somebody That's Full Of Self-doubt And Heartbreakingly Naïve. Chloe In Match Point Was A Nightmare In Some Ways And Totally Entitled, And Felt Like Everything Was Going To Be All Right. Most Of The Women In Woody Allen Films Feel Like Everything's Awful. I Didn't Understand What To Do. But Some Of The Confusion Is Helpful.

There's A Whole World Of Bad Tv That's Along Similar Themes - The Cop Drama.