Actors love to act all those death scenes.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.