Joanna Lumley says youngsters 'want to be famous' - she wanted to 'act well'
msn.comREAD MORE: Amanda Holden admits Les Dennis split 'was my fault' but claims 'women cheat for a reason"Some people only want to be movie stars.
Children come up to me and say, 'How can I be famous?' Because that's all they want to do. I never wanted to be famous. I wanted to act well. "Quite often leaving tremendous drama schools, like LAMDA and RADA, you may have come out with the gold cup, but it doesn't give you a job. "This is the whole thing in life, people who go to university and come out with a degree, it doesn't get you a job.
The only thing that gives you a job is working. "You must start out, I believe, in the most humble, humble, way, accept everything you can and get to know your business. "Joanna admits nowadays TV actors only have to "be alive and remaining breathing" to put in a performance, because there are microphones everywhere, but when she started out in theatre there was a huge emphasis on stars projecting their voice.
She said: "In the theatre, we used to have old rules that you have to be able to be heard at the back of let's say a 1,000-seater. "But nowadays, people are wearing microphones, so that ability, the ability to project your voice and your emotions over a very large crowd of people has now been taken away.
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