I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

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

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.