I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

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

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.