I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.