If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'

My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.