I set off on a lifetime’s sulk across Asia by bus and started to cheer up

All you had to do was learn a few lines by heart and raise one eyebrow at yourself.

My actor father raised one eyebrow and made a farting noise when I told him I wanted to act.

He said my head was too small, my neck was too thin, I lacked personality.

So it was that I set off on a lifetime's sulk across Asia by bus and started to cheer up.

Kubla ’s stately pleasure dome seemed to have fled east on hippy trail.