Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.