A career seemed to me something rather like a prison sentence. That was how I viewed a career, that I would start at the bottom and I’d work my way up the ladder and then I’d retire, and after a little bit I’d die. And I thought there’s nothing I want to do like that really. Nothing I want to do enough but I’d like to — I had read a lot of autobiographies of actors, from Burbage (Shakespeare’s leading man), through to Charlie Chaplin, Noel Coward, and all the people in between. That was while I was at school, under the notion that I was collecting them but with no knowledge as to why. But in fact, a lot was — you know, you don’t collect things without reason, and a lot of their lives soaked into me and their attitudes. And to be an outsider seemed to me to be very, very attractive.