If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately.

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.