I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes that you're involved in honest and real. You're not concerned with the technical aspect of things, and then you sit in the movie theater, and you watch it with everyone else, you realize that, 'Man, this is pretty exciting.'

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

I've had a terrible career.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.