America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.

Good dialogue is very important.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

When I started in the theater, the joy for me was playing different parts, and I get set alight by different people and different worlds. The biggest joy for me is jumping around and going from that to this to that, never feeling that I'm any one thing - because I'm not, and we as people aren't.

For me, London is and always will be home.