It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

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.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.