Books are my weakness.

But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

I was a pretty difficult teenager.