Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

I've certainly said I don't want to do any more bad guys, then I sit and don't do anything for a while and then think, "Okay, one more."

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.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

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.

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.