I think the older I get, the less I should be doing.
— James Purefoy
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
I have no problem with television as a genre.
If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
