- About riding: "Happily, when I'm working, I often seem to get jobs that give me the opportunity to ride - in Vanity Fair, Hamlet and Far from the Madding Crowd, for example. It is rather nice to do something I like and get paid for it. I have a quarter of a race horse but I don't have my own hack. Though we were never a horsey type of family, I started riding when I was about 10 at a local stables. I used to do show jumping and gymkhanas but, now, I am not allowed to jump because of the insurance. I just ride for pleasure, though it is still my ambition to do silks and get on a race horse."
- I have always thought women were the superior sex. Witnessing childbirth confirmed it for me.
- I was 15 when I got my first games computer, a Sinclair console. The game was to do with landing planes. I was useless at it. I must have killed bucket loads of people!
- On organ donation: "If I died today, with a perfect set of kidneys and a liver, well, dammit, people need them."
- On playing Albert Speer on television: "I've always wanted to play a Nazi because I really believe that everyone - and I'm not just talking about actors here - has a Hitler inside them. Fortunately, most of the cultivated world - and for that matter the uncultivated world - don't let the Hitler in them come out. But some do and if we don't expose it and look it in the face, we can never stop it".
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