You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'