When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.