I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.

What I did, I did without choice.

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more fun when I was younger; turning left on planes and washing up in nice places. But there are things that you only learn in theatre.