The Maigret Stories Are All

I Mean I Can Do It When I'm Very Relaxed, And With Good Friends, Then I Think I Can Be Amusing.

We Still Have A Tradition Certainly In English Television; It's Faded A Bit In The Last Five Years, But We Still Have A Tradition Where The Important Thing Is The Quality And The Challenging Nature Of The Programming.

When You Play A Serious Role, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Feel I'm Using Exactly The Same Skills, Whatever They Are, To Play The Role As You Do With Something More Obviously Comic. It's Slightly Different Muscles, But The Same Skill Set.

But, Actually, So Many Of The Clerics That I've Met, Particularly The Church Of England Clerics, Are People Of Such Extraordinary Smugness And Arrogance And Conceitedness Who Are Extraordinarily Presumptuous About The Significance Of Their Position In Society.

I Like To Relish Words And Sentences, And Phraseology, And There's Not Much Facility For That [playing Maigret].