The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

Wow..is there anything you can't do?

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."
- Ch. 5

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one