The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.
I wish people would take more care of the countryside.
People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.
Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.
My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
I'm very good at being out of work.
It always staggers me when series don't use their sidekicks.
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
I'm the captain of the Variety Club over in England, and so I'm playing golf for them once a week but doing odd bits.
You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.
I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.
I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.
While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.
I'm not very relaxed; I always need to be doing something.
Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.
Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living.
You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
I feel very at home in woodlands and could easily live there. I should have been one of Robin Hood's men.
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
