Confronting A Stadium Audience, You Can't See

I'm Sure That A French Production Of This [maigret Series] Would Be Different. For Better Or Worse, Who's To Say, But Probably Not Very Good For 8 O'clock On Itv.

I Can Be Reasonably Funny And Light-hearted When I'm In The Company Of Good Friends, But I'm Not A Jokesmith. I Tend To Be Quite Serious.

I Have A Problem With Porsches. They're Wonderful Cars, But I Know I Could Never Live With One. Somehow, The Typical Porsche People-and I Wish Them No Ill-are Not, I Feel, My Kind Of People. I Don't Go Around Saying That Porsches Are A Pile Of Dung, But I Do Know That Psychologically I Couldn't Handle Owning One.

I Have Always Worried About Things More Than I Should.

What Directors Of Television Drama Constantly Tell You Is 'don't Act It. Don't Try. Don't Emphasise That Word'. Whereas With Someone Like Blackadder, Even Though He's A Relatively Low Key Character In A Way, He Did Relish The Lines That He Had And The Words That He Was Given, With A Lot Of Inflection.