I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

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

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.