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I've Played A Lot Of Roles I Haven't Wanted To Play, Either Because They Needed Someone In The Theatre Or Because They Couldn't Do It Without Me 'cause They Don't Have Anyone Else The Right Age.

I Was Never Very Mature In My Relationships With Women. First Sign Of Conflict, I Was Gone.

I Didn't Want To Be The Archetypal Sponging Brother-in-law, So I Didn't Go Into Acting When I Got To The States. I Thought, 'no, I'll Go To School And Then I'll Be An English Teacher; That'll Be Fun.' But I Was Horrible As A Teacher. As Hard As I Tried, I Just Couldn't Inspire Those Kids To Take An Interest In Milton And Shakespeare And Donne.

Actually I Was Born In 1940 In Blackpool Because My Family Lived In Manchester But Manchester Was Being Bombed. So My Mother Was Sent Away To Blackpool To Have Me And Then Went Back; So I Lived My First Eighteen Years In Manchester And Then Emigrated To The States When I Was Eighteen.

I'm A Dog Person, I've Had Dogs All My Life. But You See, It's Not Really A Dog. It's More Like A Little Robot. It's An Actor. It Displays No Emotion Whatsoever. I Swear That Dog Doesn't Know Any Of Us Even Though We've Done Five Seasons Of Frasier.