Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough and if it's reading. That is where you have a director, who is the barometer of what you are doing.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.