Apart From Earning An Awful Lot Of

The Security Comes, As An Actor, In Knowing That You're Not In Control. If You Try To Control Your Career, Or How People Perceive You, You'll Make Yourself Unhappy, Because Life Doesn't Work Like That. So Much Is Luck. It's Much Better To Let Yourself Off, To Think, 'there's Nothing I Can Do.'

People Like To Think That Actors Are Terribly Worried About Ghosts Of Other Actors In The Parts They Play. But You Just Have To Get On With It.

It Must Be Odd, Being Recognisable. I Would Hate To Lose That Anonymity. It Happened For A While With 'spooks.' No One Notices Me Now.

Nobody's Really Unsympathetic, I Think. People Do Good And Bad Things. If A Character's Totally Unsympathetic, They're Not Real And I'm Not Interested. Even The Real Monsters Have To Have A Spark Of Something You Can Relate To.

Actors Have To Remind People That They Can Do Different Things, Not Just The Same Style Of One Role.