Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.'

I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.

Man v. Food' was the biggest career-defining opportunity. I went from anonymity to someone of note with access to amazing eateries.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.