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.

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 think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

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 was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.