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I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.