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.

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

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!'

I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.