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When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.

From Neil Jackson

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

From Neil Jackson

I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.

From Neil Jackson

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

From Neil Jackson

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

From Neil Jackson

People abusing their power makes me see red.

From Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

From Neil Jackson

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

From Neil Jackson

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

From Neil Jackson

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

From Neil Jackson

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