Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

My definition of palatable might be slightly different from yours.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.