Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time, there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie, that often, I would say.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.