I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.

The reason I live in America is because I mean literally every six or seven years I've done something in England. The last lead I had in an English film I did was 1998. So that's why I live here. It's because I get more work. I'll travel back for radio, you know what I mean. I've just got to consider myself to be living in the middle of the ocean, and that way I have a really nice career, if I'm prepared to do television, radio, theater, and film.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.