I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way...

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

I have a very open mind. I believe that there’s a spirit world. I believe that there’s a lot of stuff out there that we don’t know about, don’t want to understand, and sometimes we...

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him.

Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.

I’m the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we’re going to do.

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I...

I haven’t done too many big American movies, really, have I? Well, I’ve a couple, I suppose. I certainly haven’t done as many as I could have done.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical...

So nevertheless, what I’m saying is that what one is – one’s parameters are constantly narrowed by one’s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it’s told. It’s only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.