Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.