A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.