I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it`s raining, it`s terribly cold, I`m wet and I`m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I`d probably take the latter. It`s warmer and generally more comfortable!

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong`s landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

The pathetic thing about actors is they don`t feel valid unless they`re acting.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven`t gotten to do but I`d love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I`d love to do.

I`m not big on Champagne, but I`d take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

I`ve worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

Referring to the Simpsons: "I`m playing a cat burglar. I`ve made it. This is the high point of my career. I`m really chuffed." EW, 7/23/93.

If all I did was acting, I`d go out of my mind.

Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000, George W. Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism`, offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered. Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?.

Of all the characters I`ve played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) (mini) referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick (1991). Who Weekly (NZ) 8/23/93.