I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.

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!