Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?