All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.