Quotes

Certainly initially I rarely played heroes because there was still this tradition that heroes were six foot tall. Certainly if you had a voice that wasn't high and dark eyes then there was a feeling that we were set out to play the villains of this world. I didn't ever argue with that, because they were more or less the best parts.

[on The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)] A great experience. A great company to work with. Very gifted actors and I thought a splendid production right through, working from a script that was so clever as well, you know, you just did it really, it spoke for itself. So all my memories of those days are a good part of my life.

[on his guest appearances in two hugely popular Doctor Who (1963) serials, The War Games: Episode Seven (1969) and The Brain of Morbius: Part One (1976)] I'm getting to realise how popular that a couple of the series that I did as the guest villain or whatever, how popular they were. Now I'm realising it and there are a couple which I watched them myself not long ago and I was delighted...somehow I'd expected them to show an age and they haven't done that. They're sparkling. They're my words, I'm saying them, so I'm the best critic in a way but I was surprised to feel their quality. So whoever wrote them and however we delivered them, it's still of a standard and that's marvellous because you realise it may have been 20-30 years ago but the quality is there.