Nope, I Don't Enjoy Work Generally. Not

Without Wanting To Claim That I'm Really Like James Bond I Would Certainly Prefer To Be Thought Of As Closer To James Bond Than Mr. Bean Most Definitely.

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.

The First Couple Of Weeks Of Filming Were Quite Tricky For Me To Find My Feet With The Character [maigret], Which Wasn't Helped By The Story That We Were Telling.

I Enjoy Racing Historic Motorcars From The '50s And '60s. The Seed Of My Interest Was Planted When I Was About 12 Years Old And Took Over My Mother's Morris Minor. I Drove It Around My Father's Farm. But My Favorite Car Is Still A Mclaren F1, Which I Have Had For 10 Years.

I Suddenly Think The Job Of Acting Is A Difficult One. It's Not As Flip, Irrelevant And Shallow A Calling As I Thought It Was In The Eighties.