Ms. Parkinson said, however, that she believed actors and dancers benefited from each other's traditions.
Bisset also believes actors should beware of appearing in too many films, adverts and magazines because overexposure harms career longevity.
He talks to Jasper Rees about Laurence Olivier, turning down Bond and why he doesn't believe actors deserve the amount of attention they get.
The Liverpool-based screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the story for the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games, tells me that he believes actors are like everyone else, just more visible.
Apart from the seamless but sincere interlocking of the personal and the political - there was a lot of heart in it, and also a lot of mind - what stood out was what I believe actors call their ensemble work.
Debbie Vickers, an executive producer of "Tonight," said in the same conference call that she too believed actors could be "warming to the idea" of crossing a picket line as "strike fatigue" sets in.
If the prime minister really believes actors only take on roles with which they identify, she must be horrified by the number of serial killers with an Equity card.
Even something with the British self-deprecation of Episodes couldn't help but trade on the shock value of a major celebrity (Matt LeBlanc) acting as we believe actors to act: spoilt and cynical.
Similar concerns were recently voiced by Sir Peter Bazalgette, the Arts Council chairman, who believes actors from public schools are "out of proportion", and Brian Cox, one of Britain's foremost actors, who lamented that acting was "cutting itself off" from working-class Britain.
"Acting is a very tough industry and I believe actors should have the right to say 'yes' or 'no' to profit share productions.
