I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

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

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.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.