I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

I like fixing things.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.