My mother bought a piano for 5 pounds — an old cottage piano — and I started music lessons.  She of course, wanted me to become a concert pianist, and I had different plans.  I just wanted to be a composer […,] hoping to take a scholarship in music.  But I ended up as an acting student, […] …and then I became an actor by default, really. […] ...so I stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

…life and destiny are very peculiar. I think God — and whatever God is — has a great sense of humor. And here I am, composing at the age of 74…