Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.