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I Envy People Who Can Think, 'no, I'm Not Going To Work Today' When They Have A Huge Pile Of Deadlines Stacking Up.

What's Difficult For American Audiences Is That They're Used To A System Here Where You Can Get An Actor For Five Years Or Even Seven, And That Is Signed For At The Audition. Whereas In England, No Agent Will Give You An Actor For More Than Three Years.

I'm Seen As A Chronicler Of The Class System, Which I Don't Think Is Unfair.

Most Of The Soap Operas Always Use The Christmas Special To Kill Huge Quantities Of Their Characters. So They Have Trams Coming Off Their Rails, Or Cars Slamming Into Each Other Or Burning Buildings. It's A General Clean-out.

Lust, That State Commonly Known As 'being In Love,' Is A Kind Of Madness. It Is A Distortion Of Reality So Remarkable That It Should, By Rights, Enable Most Of Us To Understand The Other Forms Of Lunacy With The Sympathy Of Fellow-sufferers. But, Paradoxically, Mad And Suffering As One Is, And The Heat Of The Flame, Few Of Us Are Glad As We Feel That Passion Slip Away No, While Most People Have Been At Their Unhappiest When In Love, It Is Nevertheless The State The Human Being Yearns For Above All.