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.

The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

If we use less, if we consume less, we're going to have more

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

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.