Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

There are other non-English, Asian, Mexican... many, many directors I'd love to work with of different nationalities because a different national temperament and a different rhythm and a different way of looking at things is enlightening to work with.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.