There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series. And the camaraderie of it all. I loved it.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.