But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

I don't really have plans like that [move towards more dramatic acting].

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.