John Garfield

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

Reading is important.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.