If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely.

I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.

You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.

You've got to have baddies that you can boo.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.