from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more the... and the phrase would be the "character actor". yes. and i was very comfortable with that. i've always been very comfortable with that. a lot of my acting heroes when i was younger... like, for instance, when i was at drama school, and everyone was watching on the waterfront and everyone wanted to be marlon brando, i wanted to be rod steiger, you know, because i knew that that was what i was going to be. or i wanted to be karl malden. i want to be that kind of actor because the great craftsmen and the great artists and... there's less pressure as well. and the work is more diverse. and i've never been fashionable. nobody�*s ever made me into the next big thing. so, therefore, my careerjust carries on and on and on. and what's extraordinary about you, and i talk about the busy—ness because you have so many different roles, it seems, and juggling different parts at the same time, it's the diversity. for example, right now,