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When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

Certainly coming to America has been extraordinary.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.