If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

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

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.

I admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.