We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.

I've got a range as an actor! There was a time I played dramatic leading men.

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