"My memory is quite good, except when I'm off stage." — Tim Pigott-Smith

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

In television, I was first cast as a cavalry officer because of my name.

You can't keep a hero down, can you?

I would say that the money that was invested in me by Warwickshire Education Authority, which they did for five years, has been repaid a hundred times over. I have paid a lot more back to them in tax than they paid in support to me, but they helped me on my way - they launched me; they got me going.