I Think I Have An Inner Confidence

The Character [maigret] Is Bound To Change And Develop, And I Wouldn't Like To Claim That We Are Perfectly Formed Straight Out Of The Box. I Think It's What I'd Call An 'optimistic Start'. As You Know, For Me, No Glass Is Anything Other Than Half Empty, So I Apologise For My Reticence In Terms Of Promoting This Programme.

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.

Mr. Bean Is At His Best When He Is Not Using Words, But I Am Equally At Home In Both Verbal And Nonverbal Expression.

But, Actually, So Many Of The Clerics That I've Met, Particularly The Church Of England Clerics, Are People Of Such Extraordinary Smugness And Arrogance And Conceitedness Who Are Extraordinarily Presumptuous About The Significance Of Their Position In Society.

I've No Desire To Hang Around With A Bunch Of Upper-class Delinquents, Do Twenty Minutes' Work And Then Spend The Rest Of The Day Loafing About In Paris Drinking Gallons Of Champagne And Having Dozens Of Moist, Pink, Highly Experienced French Peasant Girls Galloping Up And Down My - Hang On.