When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.

I like clothes that are simple and preferably cheap unless I'm being given it for free.

Art is anything you can get away with.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Art is what you can get away with.

I will not get very far with this attitude.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.