The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.