I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

Always start where the energy is.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'