“Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.”

“I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.”

“I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.”

“I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.”