No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

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

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.