I Tend To Play Rather Odd Men.

I Suddenly Think The Job Of Acting Is A Difficult One. It's Not As Flip, Irrelevant And Shallow A Calling As I Thought It Was In The Eighties.

In Tv, And In Particular In Commercials, You Don't Really Need To Explain Very Much At All - You Just Say He's A Spy And He's A Little Bit Theatrical And Overblown And Smug And He's Not Very Good At His Job.

If You're A Serious Actor, It's When You Know You're Going To Die Tomorrow That You Really Start To Feel It.

Your Services Might Be As Useful As A Barbershop On The Steps Of A Guillotine.

One Of The Conventions That I Always Liked Was Doctor Zhivago, Where Everything That's Written On The Screen Is In Russian But Everyone Speaks English. That Seemed To Me To Be Quite A Good Convention To Follow.