I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!