I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.