You've got to have baddies that you can boo.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for.

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.