Quotes

On his father's attitude to his son's acting career when he introduced him to Sir John Mills: Dad said 'I'm actually sitting here with someone who has a perfectly normal life. I guess it's perfectly possible for my son to not end up on skid row.'

[on turning down the role of Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)] I was offered, not Captain Picard, but whatever the Captain would have been, so before I did Casualty (1986), I made a choice of doing Casualty (1986) as opposed to whatever the Captain would have been on "Star Trek". But I didn't want to do that, I can't do sci-fi. It just drives me up the wall, it's all rubbish and spouting that gibberish every day was no thank you very much. The thing I loved about Casualty (1986) was although there was a lot of gobbledygook at least it was all about real life and people and medical situations and that became the challenge. Actually talking about all the so called scientific stuff that really most of the time doesn't make any sense to anybody whatsoever, and looking at a whole bunch of silly people in makeup was just not what I wanted to do with my life so Captain Picard would not be a choice. Captain Pugwash might be rather appropriate.