I have to say that I've reached the state of my career where I quite like not to work. Strange enough, I'm busier than ever. I'm not spending every waking hour beside a telephone waiting for it to ring.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.