Nicholas Lea

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

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.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.