Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.

I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.